Smiles form the channel of a future tear.

Men are the sport of circumstances when it seems circumstances are the sport of men.

I know that two and two make four -- and should be glad to prove it too if I could -- though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure.

Who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below.

Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore.

The lapse of ages changes all things -- time, language, the earth, the bounds of the sea, the stars of the sky, and every thing ''about, around, and underneath'' man, except man himself.

No more we meet in yonder bowers Absence has made me prone to roving; But older, firmer hearts than ours, Have found monotony in loving.

Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity.

The ''good old times'' -- all times when old are good.