The drinking man is never less himself than during his sober intervals.

Your absence of mind we have borne, till your presence of body came to be called in question by it.

Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment.

Alas! how light a cause may move Dissension between hearts that love! Hearts that the world in vain had tried, And sorrow but more closely tied; That stood the storm when waves were rough, Yet in a sunny hour fall off, Like ships that have gone down at sea When heaven was all tranquillity.

In the Negro countenance you will often meet with strong traits of benignity. I have felt yearnings of tenderness towards some of these faces.

Who first invented work, and bound the free And holiday-rejoicing spirit down . . . . To that dry drudgery at the desk's dead wood? . . . . Sabbathless Satan!

I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.