There is only one universal passion fear.

We should have had socialism already, but for the socialists, am quite willing to drop the name if dropping it will help me to get the thing.

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

No severity of punishment deters when detection is uncertain, as it always must be.

The way to deal with worldly people is to frighten them by repeating their scandalous whisperings aloud.

Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the constancy of its vows are the very people who declare that if the chain were broken and the prisoners left free to choose, the whole social fabric would fly asunder. You cannot have the argument both ways. If the prisoner is happy, why lock him in? If he is not, why pretend that he is?

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.