Positively, the best thing a man can have to do, is nothing, and next to that perhaps — good works.
No one ever regarded the first of January with indifference.
I never knew an enemy to puns who was not an ill-natured man.
I toiled after it, sir, as some men toil after virtue.
No eye to watch, and no tongue to wound us, All earth forgot, and all heaven around us.
Be not frightened at the hard words "imposition," "imposture;" give and ask no questions. Cast thy bread upon the waters. Some have, unawares, entertained angels.