If we should deal out justice only, in this world, who would escape? No, it is better to be generous, and in the end more profitable, for it gains gratitude for us, and love.

The humorist who invented trial by jury played a colossal practical joke upon the world, but since we have the system we ought to try and respect it. A thing which is not thoroughly easy to do, when we reflect that by command of the law a criminal juror must be an intellectual vacuum, attached to a melting heart and perfectly macaronian bowels of compassion.

Don't wake up a woman in love. Let her dream, so that she does not weep when she returns to her bitter reality

To place man properly at the present time, he stands somewhere between the angels and the French.

Where prejudice exists it always discolors our thoughts.

Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, political, or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations and sympathies.

Progressive improvement beats delayed perfection.