Fortune's wheel never stands still the highest point is therefore the most perilous.

I've a great fancy to see my own funeral afore I die.

[On collectors of quotations:] How far our literature may in future suffer from these blighting swarms, will best be conceived by a glance at what they have already withered and blasted of the favourite productions of our most popular poets.

Promises are dangerous things to ask or to give.

a straight line is the shortest possible line between any two points - an axiom equally true in morals as in mathematics.

Surely it is much more generous to forgive and remember, than to forgive and forget.

Nature's hasty conscience.