When a felon's not engaged in his employment Or maturing his felonious little plans His capacity for innocent enjoyment Is just as great as any honest man's Ah! When constabulary duty's to be done A policeman's lot is not a happy one.

Prevention is the daughter of intelligence.

What dependence can I have on the alleged events of ancient history, when I find such difficulty in ascertaining the truth regarding a matter that has taken place only a few minutes ago, and almost in my own presence!

Whosoever in writing a modern history shall follow the truth too near the heels it may haply strike out his teeth.

The useful type of successful teacher is one whose main interest is the children, not the subject.

It is the nature of men having escaped one extreme, which by force they were constrained long to endure, to run headlong into the other extreme, forgetting that virtue doth always consist in the mean.

A man must first govern himself ere he is fit to govern a family; and his family ere he be fit to bear the government of the commonwealth.