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.

Not childhood alone, but the young man till thirty, never feels practically that he is mortal.

I am accounted by some people as a good man. How cheap that character is acquired! Pay your debts, don't borrow money, nor twist your kitten's neck off, nor disturb a congregation, etc., your business is done. I know things of myself, which would make every friend I have fly me as a plague patient.

When I am not walking, I am reading. I cannot sit and think.

Oh, breathe not his name! let it sleep in the shade, Where cold and unhonour'd his relics are laid

It is good to have friends at court.

He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.