Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall.

In a letter to a friend the thought is often unimportant, and the feeling, if it be only a desire to entertain him, every thing.

'Tis a sharp medicine, but it will cure all that ails you.

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.

There is nothing more becoming any wise man, than to make choice of friends, for by them thou shalt be judged what thou art: let them therefore be wise and virtuous, and none of those that follow thee for gain; but make election rather of thy betters, than thy inferiors.

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.

The world is itself but a larger prison, out of which some are daily selected for execution.