It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.

It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away.

An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.

Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration.

Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.

Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that.

A boy's story is the best that is ever told.

Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew.

In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.

The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.

The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.

Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.

It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.

We forge the chains we wear in life.

Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.