Books are not seldom talismans and spells.

Where thou art gone, adieus and farewells are a sound unknown.

A heretic, my dear sir, is a fellow who disagrees with you regarding something neither of you knows anything about.

Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.

God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.

Strength may wield the ponderous spade, May turn the clod, and wheel the compost home; But elegance, chief grace the garden shows, And most attractive, is the fair result Of thought, the creature of a polished mind.

Great offices will have great talents, and God gives to every man the virtue, temper, understanding, taste, that lifts him into life, and lets him fall just in the niche he was ordained to fill.