Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

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

Wishes, at least, are the easy pleasures of the poor.

The blackest of fluid is used as an agent to enlighten the world.

A man never so beautifully shows his own strength as when he respects a woman's softness.

A piece of simple goodness--a letter gushing from the heart; a beautiful unstudied vindication of the worth and untiring sweetness of human nature--a record of the invulnerability of man, armed with high purpose, sanctified by truth.

As for the brandy, "nothing extenuate"; and the water, put nought in in malice.