The desire to conquer is itself a sort of subjection.

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.

What is opportunity to the man who can't use it? An unfecundated egg, which the waves of time wash away into nonentity.

Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.

The words of genius have a wider meaning than the thought that prompted them.

It is a fact capable of amiable interpretation that ladies are not the worst disposed towards a new acquaintance of their own sex, because she has points of inferiority.

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.