I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!

Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.

Sleeping or waking, we hear not the airy footsteps of the strange things that almost happen.

The marble keeps merely a cold and sad memory of a man who would else be forgotten. No man who needs a monument ever ought to have one.

The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.

Sunlight is like the breath of life to the pomp of autumn.

What is there so ponderous in evil, that a thumb's bigness of it should outweigh the mass of things not evil, which were heaped into the other scale!