This is the course of every evil deed, that, propagating still it brings forth evil.

Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge, but passes into it through an intermediate state of obscurity, even as night into day through twilight.

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.

The many men, so beautiful! And they all dead did lie: And a thousand thousand slimy things Lived on; and so did I.

Let every book-worm, when in any fragrant, scarce old tome, he discovers a sentence, a story, an illustration, that does his heart good, hasten to give it the widest circulation that newspapers and magazines, penny and halfpenny, can afford.

A woman in a single state may be happy and may be miserable; but most happy, most miserable, these are epithets belonging to a wife.

When thieves come, I bark; when gallants, I am still - So perform both my master's and mistress's will.