Only by the candle, held in the skeleton hand of Poverty, can man read his own dark heart.

Whenever man commits a crime heaven finds a witness.

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.

He who has loved often ... has loved never.

Men are valued, not for what they are, but for what they seem to be.

Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it

Husband and wife have so many interests in common that when they have jogged through the ups and downs of life a sufficient time, the leash which at first galled often grows easy and familiar.