It's in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present.

Time and tide will wait for no man, saith the adage. But all men have to wait for time and tide.

Lawyers hold that there are two kinds of particularly bad witnesses--a reluctant witness, and a too-willing witness.

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.

Hours are golden links--God's tokens reaching heaven.

Drive him fast to his tomb. This, from Jacques.

An inebriated elderly gentleman in the last depths of shabbiness... played the calm and virtuous old men.