Black are the brooding clouds and troubled the deep waters, when the Sea of Thought, first heaving from a calm, gives up its Dead

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a little patronage more so.

"Why, I don't exactly know about perjury, my dear sir," replied the little gentleman. "Harsh word, my dear sir, very harsh word indeed. It's a legal fiction, my dear sir, nothing more."

Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it.

Dumb as a drum vith a hole in it, sir.

I know enough of the world now to have almost lost the capacity of being much surprised by anything

It is known, to the force of a single pound weight, what the engine will do; but, not all the calculators of the National Debt can tell me the capacity for good or evil, for love or hatred, for patriotism or discontent, for the decomposition of virtue into vice, or the reverse.