Silence is sorrow's best food.

Puritanism, believing itself quick with the seed of religious liberty, laid, without knowing it, the egg of democracy.

God is the only being who has time enough; but a prudent man, who knows how to seize occasion, can commonly make a shift to find as much as he needs.

History is clarified experience.

No mud can soil us but the mud we throw.

Ah, in this world, where every guiding thread Ends suddenly in the one sure centre, death, The visionary hand of Might-have-been Alone can fill Desire's cup to the brim!

Metaphor is no argument, though it be sometimes the gunpowder to drive one home, and imbed it in the memory.