So shall I join the choir invisible Whose music is the gladness of the world.

A good solid bit of work lasts.

If a woman's young and pretty, I think you can see her good looks all the better for her being plainly dressed.

All the learnin' my father ever paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and the alphabet at th ' other.

Errors look so very ugly in persons of small means -one feels they are taking quite a liberty in going astray; whereas people of fortune may naturally indulge in a few delinquencies.

The dull mind, once arriving at an inference that flatters the desire, is rarely able to retain the impression that the notion from which the inference started was purely problematic.

Better a wrong will than a wavering; better a steadfast enemy than an uncertain friend; better a false belief than no belief at all.