Dogmatic toleration is nonsense: I would no more tolerate the teaching of Calvinism to children if I had power to persecute it than the British Raj tolerated suttee in India. Every civilized authority must draw a line between the tolerable and the intolerable.

Though justice be Thy plea, consider this: That in the course of justice none of us should see salvation. We do pray for mercy, And that same prayer doth teach us all to render The deeds of mercy.

When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them.

Youth, what a pity to waste it on the young.

All young women begin by believing they can change and reform the men they marry. They can't.

An English army led by an Irish general: that might be a match for a French army led by an Italian general.

Unless the law of marriage were first made human, it could never become divine.