So to live is heaven; to make undying music in the world.

It is not true that love makes all things easy; it makes us choose what is difficult.

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.

... we are most of us brought up in the notion that the highest motive for not doing a wrong is something irrespective of the beings who would suffer the wrong.

Pity that consequences are determined not by excuses but by actions!

Ignorance ... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

Try to take hold of your sensibility, and use it as if it were a faculty, like vision.