A piece of happiness should never be taken as due.
A woman friend! He that believes that weakness, Steers in a stormy night without a compass.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
We must not be content to be cleansed from sin; we must be filled with the Spirit.
Our acts our angels are, for good or ill, our fatal shadows that walk by us still.
The greatest attribute of heaven is mercy; And 'tis the crown of justice, and the glory
Corruption is a tree, whose branches are Of an immeasurable length: they spread Ev'rywhere; and the dew that drops from thence Hath infected some chairs and stools of authority.
Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it.
It was understood that nothing of a tender nature could possibly be confided to old Barley, by reason of his being totally unequal to the consideration of any subject more psychological than gout, rum, and purser's stores.
No man is the whole of himself; his friends are the rest of him.
It was a hard time for me to have a pure moment, to be present, to be here