If you give way to fear, you'll be a coward; and ... a coward is apt to be a liar. The devil's first name is Fear.

... is there anything more unjust than to build gold and brass and iron on poor, well-meaning clay, -- and then blame the clay when the whole image falls into dust?

Books are like sapphires; they must be polished - polished! or else you insult your readers.

... perhaps there is no conceit so arrogant as the conceit which follows a conviction of emancipation.

I've always thought the law ought to put on spectacles, it has mighty poor eyesight once in a while.

silence is very moving to youth, for who knows what it hides?

There is a bond, it appears, between mother and child which endures as long as they do. It is independent of love; reason cannot weaken it; hate cannot destroy it.