The greatest crimes do not arise from a want of feeling for others but from an over-sensibilit y for ourselves and an over-indulgence to our own desires
Laws, like houses, lean on one another.
The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.
No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity.
To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.