Of all the months of the year, there is not a month one half so welcome to the young, or so full of happy associations, as the last month of the year.
The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only beloved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
My advice is, never do to-morrow what you can to-day. Procrastination is the thief of time. Collar him.
How much great minds have suffered for the truth in every age and time.
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.
