Our wanton accidents take root, and grow To vaunt themselves God's laws.

Accidents will occur in the best regulated families.

The greatest pleasure I know is to do something by stealth and have it found out by accident

There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

The world goes up and the world goes down, the sunshine follows the rain; and yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown can never come over again.

He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them.