Memory, bosom-spring of joy.

To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.

Mr. Lyell's system of geology is just half the truth, and no more. He affirms a great deal that is true, and he denies a great deal which is equally true; which is the general characteristic of all systems not embracing the whole truth.

Milton has carefully marked in his Satan the intense selfishness, the alcohol of egotism, which would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven.

Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man

As a man without forethought scarcely deserves the name of a man, so forethought without reflection is but a metaphorical phrase for the instinct of a beast.

Poetry: the best words in the best order.