Cant is the parrot talk of a profession.

There are errors which no wise man will treat with rudeness while there is a probability that they may be the refraction of some great truth still below the horizon.

Often do the spirits stride on before the event; and in today already walks tomorrow.

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

Call not that man wretched, who whatever else he suffers as to pain inflicted, or pleasure denied, has a child for whom he hopes and on whom he doats.

You may depend upon it, religion is, in its essence, the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It will alone gentilize, if unmixed with cant; and I know nothing else that will, alone. Certainly not the army, which is thought to be the grand embellisher of manners.

The fair breeze blew, The white foam flew, And the forrow followed free. We were the first to ever burst into the silent sea.