The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.

My devil had been long caged, he came out roaring

Strange as my circumstances were, the terms of this debate are as old and commonplace as man; much the same inducements and alarms cast the die for any tempted and trembling sinner; and it fell out with me, as it falls with so vast a majority of my fellows, that I chose the better part and was found wanting in the strength to keep to it.

There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.

Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.

Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety, and the quiet mind. Spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies. Bless us, if it may be, in all our innocent endeavours. If it may not, give us the strength to encounter that which is to come, that we may be brave in peril, constant in tribulation, temparate in wrath, and in all changes of fortune, and down to the gates of death, loyal and loving to one another.

Teacher, tender comrade, wife, A fellow-farer true through life.