"I believe that no characteristic is so distinctively human as the sense of indebtedness we feel, not necessarily for a favor received, but even for the slightest evidence of kindness; and there is nothing so boorish, savage, inhuman as to appear to be overwhelmed by a favor, let alone unworthy of it."

Loyalty is what we seek in friendship.

Extreme justice is extreme injustice.

There is nothing more shocking than to see assertion and approval dashing ahead of cognition and perception.

Pardon is granted to necessity.

This wine is forty years old. It certainly doesn't show its age.

The divinity who rules within us, forbids us to leave this world without his command.