Whenever man commits a crime heaven finds a witness.

It is the glorious doom of literature that the evil perishes and the good remains.

Shame is like the weaver's thread; if it breaks in the net, it is wholly imperfect.

Despair makes victims sometimes victors.

It is, the most beautiful truth in morals that we have no such thing as a distinct or divided interest from our race. In their welfare is ours, and by choosing the broadest paths to effect their happiness we choose the surest and the shortest to our own.

We are not such fools as to pay for reading inferior books, when we can read superior books for nothing.

Grief alone can teach us what is man.