Thou hast been called, O sleep, the friend of woe, But 'tis the happy that have called thee so.

All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.

It behooves us always to bear in mind, that while actions are always to be judged by the immutable standard of right and wrong, the judgments which we pass upon men must be qualified by considerations of age, country, station, and other accidental circumstances; and it will then be found that he who is most charitable in his judgment is generally the least unjust.

And everybody praised the Duke Who this great fight did win. "But what good came of it at last?" Quoth little Peterkin. "Why, that I cannot tell," said he, "But 'twas a famous victory."

Beware of those who are homeless by choice! You have no hold on human being whose affections are without a top-root!

Without religion the highest endowments of intellect can only render the possessor more dangerous if he be ill disposed; if well disposed, only more unhappy.

In the days of my youth I remembered my God! And He hath not forgotten my age.