The great happiness of life, I find, after all, to consist in the regular discharge of some mechanical duty.

Speech is always bolder than action.

Weep, for the light is dead.

Even in a righteous cause force is a fearful thing.

Time flies on restless pinions - constant never.

It is easy to give advice from a port of safety.

The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world.