Man, while he loves, is never quite depraved.

As half in shade and half in sun This world along its path advances, May that side the sun 's upon Be all that e'er shall meet thy glances!

He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.

Positively, the best thing a man can have to do, is nothing, and next to that perhaps — good works.

No work is worse than overwork; the mind preys on itself,--the most unwholesome of food.

Books think for me. I can read anything which I call a book.

Oft in the stilly night, Ere slumber's chain has bound me, Fond memory brings the light Of other days around me; The smiles, the tears, Of boyhood's years, The words of love then spoken; The eyes that shone Now dimmed and gone, The cheerful hearts now broken.