The mood and temper of the public in regard to the treatment of crime and criminals is one of the most unfailing tests of the civilisation of any country.
To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
You have to study a great deal to know a little.
Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.
When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.
Men in excess of happiness or misery are equally inclined to severity. Witness conquerors and monks! It is mediocrity alone, and a mixture of prosperous and adverse fortune that inspire us with lenity and pity.