The words in prose ought to express the intended meaning, and no more; if they attract attention to themselves, it is, in general, a fault.

The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.

In the deepest night of trouble and sorrow God gives us so much to be thankful for that we need never cease our singing. With all our wisdom and foresight we can take a lesson in gladness and gratitude from the happy bird that sings all night, as if the day were not long enough to tell its joy.

There are three classes into which all the women past seventy that ever I knew were to be divided: 1. That dear old soul; 2. That old woman; 3. That old witch.

May all the stars hang bright above her dwelling, Silent as though they watched the sleeping earth!

Talk of the devil, and his horns appear.

In wonder all philosophy began, in wonder it ends, and admiration fill up the interspace; but the first wonder is the offspring of ignorance, the last is the parent of adoration.