It is well known to all experienced minds that our firmest convictions are often dependent on subtle impressions for which words are quite too coarse a medium.

Better spend an extra hundred or two on your son's education, than leave it him in your will.

The dew-bead Gem of earth and sky begotten.

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

The law and medicine should be very serious professions to undertake, should they not? People's lives and fortunes depend on them.

To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.

I'll tell you what's the greatest power under heaven, and that is public opinion-the ruling belief in society about what is right and what is wrong, what is honourable and what is shameful. That's the steam that is to work the engines.