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

I like you and your book, ingenious Hone! In whose capacious all-embracing leaves The very marrow of tradition 's shown; And all that history, much that fiction weaves.

The cheerful Sabbath bells, wherever heard, Strike pleasant on the sense, most like the voice Of one, who from the far-off hills proclaims Tidings of good to Zion.

The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend.

Clap an extinguisher upon your irony if you are unhappily blessed with a vein of it.

May be the truth is, that one pipe is wholesome, two pipes toothsome, three pipes noisome, four pipes fulsome, five pipes quarrelsome; and that's the some on't.

Mother's love grows by giving.