Three fishers went sailing away to the west,/ Away to the west as the sun went down.

Love can make us fiends as well as angels.

There's no use doing a kindness if you do it a day too late.

[A]ll the ingenious men, and all the scientific men, and all the fanciful men, in the world,... could never invent, if all their wits were boiled into one, anything so curious and so ridiculous as a lobster.

For men must work and women must weep, And the sooner it's over, the sooner to sleep.

I can conceive few human states more enviable than that of the man to whom, panting in the foul laboratory, or watching for his life under the tropic forest, Isis shall for a moment lift her sacred veil, and show him, once and for ever, the thing he dreamed not of; some law, or even mere hint of a law, explaining one fact; but explaining with it a thousand more, connecting them all with each other and with the mighty whole, till order and meaning shoots through some old Chaos of scattered observations.

A man may learn from his Bible to be a more thorough gentleman than if he had been brought up in all the drawing-rooms in London.