Sensitive people never like the fatigue of justifying their instincts.

There is more done with pens than with swords.

the Lord gives good many things twice over; but he don't give ye a mother but once.

No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man. Life and death to him are haunted grounds, filled with goblin forms of vague and shadowy dread.

O, ye who visit the distressed, do ye know that everything your money can buy, given with a cold, averted face, is not worth one honest tear shed in real sympathy?

Greek is the morning land of languages, and has the freshness of early dew in it which will never exhale.

It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.