Brandy and water spoils two good things.

He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.

Think what you would have been now, if instead of being fed with tales and old wives' fables in childhood, you had been crammed with geography and natural history!

Wert thou all that I wish thee, great, glorious, and free, First flower of the earth and first gem of the sea.

New Year's Day is every man's birthday.

A poor relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature, a piece of non pertinent correspondence, an odious approximation, a haunting conscience, a preposterous shadow, lengthening in the noontide of our prosperity.

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