You may derive thoughts from others; your way of thinking, the mould in which your thoughts are cast, must be your own.

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

Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.

A child's nature is too serious a thing to admit of its being regarded as a mere appendage to another being.

When twilight dews are falling soft Upon the rosy sea, love, I watch the star whose beam so oft Has lighted me to thee, love.

The measure of choosing well, is, whether a man likes and finds good in what he has chosen.

Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.