Amity itself can only be maintained by reciprocal respect, and true friends are punctilious equals.

I will live and die by this testimony: that I loved a good conscience; that I never invaded another man's liberty; and that I preserved my own.

Our souls belong to our bodies, not our bodies to our souls.

Aye, aye! and I'll chase him round Good Hope, and round the Horn, and round the Norway Maelstrom, and round perdition's flames before I give him up.

Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.

It is not for man to follow the trail of truth too far, since by so doing he entirely loses the directing compass of his mind.

If you begin the day with a laugh, you may, nevertheless, end it with a sob and a sigh.