The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.

I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as it was said to me.

A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.

Tears are the softening showers which cause the seed of heaven to spring up in the human heart.

To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.

"Lambe them, lads! lambe them!" a cant phrase of the time derived from the fate of Dr. Lambe, an astrologer and quack, who was knocked on the head by the rabble in Charles the First's time.

Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer.