Talk of the devil, and his horns appear.

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

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

Religion is the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It alone will gentilize, if unmixed with cant.

Health is a great blessing--competence obtained by honorable industry is a great blessing--and a great blessing it is to have kind, faithful, and loving friends and relatives; but, that the greatest of all blessings, as it is the most ennobling of all privileges, is to be indeed a Christian.

All nature seems at work.

You see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it - low, vulgar, meddling with everything, assuming universal competency, and flattering every base passion - and sneering at everything noble refined and truly national. The direct tyranny will come on by and by, after it shall have gratified the multitude with the spoil and ruin of the old institutions of the land.