[N]o country can be well governed unless its citizens as a body keep religiously before their minds that they are the guardians of the law and that the law officers are only the machinery for its execution, nothing more.

Frankenstein took some flesh and bones and blood and made a man out of them; the man ran away and fell to raping and robbing and murdering everywhere, and Frankenstein was horrified and in despair, and said, I made him, without asking his consent, and it makes me responsible for every crime he commits. I am the criminal, he is innocent.

If man had created man, he would be ashamed of his performance.

Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was that they escaped teething.

A newspaper is not just for reporting the news as it is, but to make people mad enough to do something about it.

To succeed in the other trades, capacity must be shown; in the law, concealment of it will do.

He is now rising from affluence to poverty.