I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.

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

You look wise, pray correct that error.

Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment.

Oh, ever thus, from childhood's hour, I 've seen my fondest hopes decay; I never loved a tree or flower But 't was the first to fade away. I never nurs'd a dear gazelle, To glad me with its soft black eye, But when it came to know me well And love me, it was sure to die.

What a dead thing is a clock, with its ponderous embowelments of lead and brass, its pert or solemn dullness of communication, compared with the simple altar-like structure and silent heart-language of the old sundials! It stood as the garden god of Christian gardens. Why is it almost everywhere vanished? If its business-use be superseded by more elaborate inventions, its moral uses, its beauty, might have pleaded for its continuance.

To pile up honey upon sugar, and sugar upon honey, to an interminable tedious sweetness.