Your wit makes others witty.

I cannot live one day without love.

The use of torture is contrary to sound judgment and common sense. Humanity itself cries out against it, and demands it to be utterly abolished.

Your wits make others witty.

Tell a thousand people to draft a letter, let them debate every phrase, and see how long it takes and what you get.

to tempt and be tempted are closely allied; and in spite of all the finest moral maxims buried in the mind, when emotion interferes, when feeling makes its appearance, one is already much further involved that one realizes, and I have still not learnt how to prevent its appearance.

All punishments by which the human body might be maimed are barbarbarism.