I never hear the rattling of dice that it does not sound to me like the funeral bell of the whole family.

The sharp employ the sharp.

The best thing I know between France and England is the sea.

Intemperance is the epitome of every crime, the cause of every kind of misery.

Dogmation is puppyism come to its full growth.

A creature undefiled by the taint of the world, unvexed by its injustice, unwearied by its hollow pleasures; a being fresh from the source of light, with something of its universal lustre in it. If childhood be this, how holy the duty to see that in its onward growth it shall be no other!

Troubles are like babies - they only grow by nursing.