For deadly fear can time outgo, and blanch at once the hair.

For he that does good, having the unlimited power to do evil, deserves praise not only for the good which he performs, but for the evil which he forbears.

If you keep a thing seven years, you are sure to find a use for it.

God forgive me for having thought it possible that a schoolmaster could be out and out a rational being.

A sinful heart makes feeble hand.

I have sometimes thought of the final cause of dogs having such short lives and I am quite satisfied it is in compassion to the human race; for if we suffer so much in losing a dog after an acquaintance of ten or twelve years, what would it be if they were to live double that time?

He hath a share of man's intelligence, but no share of man's falsehood.