We are more speedily and fatally corrupted by domestic examples of vice, and particularly when they are impressed on our minds as from authority.

We are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others.

Punishment closely follows guilt as its companion.

Books have their destinies.

Hired mourners at a funeral say and do - A little more than they whose grief is true

I can never forget suffering and I will never forget sunset. I came home with all of it in my mind.

To please great men is not the last degree of praise.