When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa.

No society is complete without some victim, a creature to pity, to jeer at, to scorn or to protect.

Fools gain greater advantages through their weakness than intelligent men through their strength. We watch a great man struggling against fate and we do not lift a finger to help him. But we patronize a grocer who is headed for bankruptcy.

Study lends a kind of enchantment to all our surroundings.

Law is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones.

Self-love is as protective as the Deity; Disenchantment is as perspicacious as a surgeon; Experience is as provident as a mother. Such are the theologic virtues of marriage.

The winter's frost must rend the burr of the nut before the fruit is seen. So adversity tempers the human heart, to discover its real worth.