There are men whose presence infuses trust and reverence.

When one wanted one's interests looking after whatever the cost, it was not so well for a lawyer to be over honest, else he might not be up to other people's tricks.

I am influenced at the present time by far higher considerations and by a nobler idea of duty than I ever was when I held the Evangelical belief.

A fool or idiot is one who expects things to happen that never can happen.

Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.

Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning.

But if Maggie had been that young lady, you would probably have known nothing about her: her life would have had so few vicissitudes that it could hardly have been written; for the happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.