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.

Love is on the verge of hate each time it stoops for pardon.

A man of genius is inexhaustible only in proportion as he is always renourishing his genius.

It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.

It is the glorious doom of literature that the evil perishes and the good remains. Even when the original author of some healthy and useful truth is forgotten, the truth survives, transplanted to works more calculated to purify it from error, and perpetuate it to our benefit.

We must remember how apt man is to extremes--rushing from credulity and weakness to suspicion and distrust.

Whatever the number of a man's friends, there will be times in his life when he has one too few; but if he has only one enemy, he is lucky indeed if he has not one too many.