I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is.

To sigh, yet feel no pain; To weep, yet scarce know why; To sport an hour with Beauty's chain, Then throw it idly by.

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

The red-letter days, now become, to all intents and purposes, dead-letter days.

I hate the man who eats without knowing what he’s eating. I doubt his taste in more important things.

The harp that once through Tara's halls The soul of music shed, Now hangs as mute on Tara's walls As if that soul were fled. So sleeps the pride of former days, So glory's thrill is o'er; And hearts that once beat high for praise Now feel that pulse no more.

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.