Thank God, they cannot cut down the clouds!

Only what is thought, said, or done at a certain rare coincidence is good.

A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener. So our prospects brighten on the influx of better thoughts. We should be blessed if we lived in the present always, and took advantage of every accident that befell us.

Heaven might be defined as the place which men avoid.

I think the fall from the farmer to the operative as great and memorable as that from the man to the farmer.

It takes a man of genius to travel in his own country, in his native village; to make any progress between his door and his gate.

Tom Hyde, the tinker, standing on the gallows, was asked if he had anything to say. "Tell the tailors," said he, "to remember to make a knot in their thread before they take the first stitch." His companion's prayer is forgotten.