How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.

That agony returns; And till my ghastly tale is told, This heart within me burns.

There is one art of which people should be masters - the art of reflection.

Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.

The juggle of sophistry consists, for the most part, in using a word in one sense in all the premises, and in another sense in the conclusion.

He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small; For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all.

And here were forests ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.