Of all sound of all bells... most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year.

We do not go to the theatre like our ancestors, to escape from the pressure of reality, so much as to confirm our experience of it.

I conceive disgust at these impertinent and misbecoming familiarities inscribed upon your ordinary tombstone.

A sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature.

He who hath not a dram of folly in his mixture hath pounds of much worse matter in his composition.

I counsel thee, shut not thy heart, nor thy library.

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.