To be thankful for what we grasp exceeding our proportion is to add hypocrisy to injustice.

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.

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

A child's nature is too serious a thing to admit of its being regarded as a mere appendage to another being.

'T is sweet to think that where'er we rove We are sure to find something blissful and dear; And that when we 're far from the lips we love, We 've but to make love to the lips we are near.

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

To be sick is to enjoy monarchical prerogatives.