I can forgive injuries, but never benefits.
Letters to absence can a voice impart, And lend a tongue when distance gags the heart.
We often repent of our first thoughts, and scarce ever of our second.
When people will not weed their own minds, they are apt to be overrun by nettles.
Two clergymen disputing whether ordination would be valid without the imposition of both hands, the more formal one said, "Do you think the Holy Dove could fly down with only one wing?
Nothing has shown more fully the prodigious ignorance of human ideas and their littleness, than the discovery of [Sir William] Herschell, that what used to be called the Milky Way is a portion of perhaps an infinite multitude of worlds!