The law is a gun, which if it misses a pigeon always kills a crow; if it does not strike the guilty, it hits someone else. As every crime creates a law, so in turn every law creates a crime.

The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it.

The poet in prose or verse - the creator - can only stamp his images forcibly on the page in proportion as he has forcibly felt, ardently nursed, and long brooded over them.

One vice worn out makes us wiser than fifty tutors.

A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last.

Kindness like light speaks in the air it gilds.

The vices and the virtues are written in a language the world cannot construe; it reads them in a vile translation, and the translators are Failure and Success.