This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions.

To be perfectly original one should think much and read little, and this is impossible, for one must have read before one has learnt to think.

I depart, Whither I know not; but the hour's gone by When Albion's lessening shores could grieve or glad mine eye.

I have always laid it down as a maxim -and found it justified by experience -that a man and a woman make far better friendships than can exist between two of the same sex -but then with the condition that they never have made or are to make love to each other.

Near this spot are deposited the remains of one who possessed beauty without vanity, strength without insolence, courage without ferocity, and all the virtues of man, without his vices. This praise, which would be unmeaning flattery if inscribed over human ashes, is but a just tribute to the memory of Botswain, a dog.

A woman being never at a loss... the devil always sticks by them.

There is no traitor like him whose domestic treason plants the poniard within the breast that trusted to his truth