Positively, the best thing a man can have to do, is nothing, and next to that perhaps — good works.

Philanthropy, like charity, must begin at home.

Mother's love grows by giving.

Shall I ask the brave soldier who fights by my side In the cause of mankind, if our creeds agree?

The drinking man is never less himself than during his sober intervals.

What a place to be in is an old library! It seems as though all the souls of all the writers that have bequeathed their labours to these Bodleians were reposing here as in some dormitory, or middle state. I do not want to handle, to profane the leaves, their winding-sheets. I could as soon dislodge a shade. I seem to inhale learning, walking amid their foliage; and the odor of their old moth-scented coverings is fragrant as the first bloom of the sciential apples which grew amid the happy orchard.

There are like to be short graces where the devil plays host.