There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.

The 'good old times' - all times when old are good.

Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce.

All tragedies are finished by a death, All comedies are ended by a marriage.

In itself a thought, a slumbering thought is capable of years; and curdles a long life into one hour.

Grief should be the instructor of the wise; Sorrow is Knowledge.

What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.