The guilty are allowed, by human laws, bloody as they are, to speak in their own defence before they are condemned.

A mind of moderate capacity which closely pursues one study must infallibly arrive at great proficiency in that study.

When I step into the batter's box, the fans, the noise, the cheers, they all disappear. For that moment, the world is just a battle between me and the pitcher. And more than anything, I want to win.

His conversation was marked by its happy abundance.

marriage is usually considered the grave, and not the cradle of love.

I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel.

It is true, we shall be monsters, cut off from all the world; but on that account we shall be more attached to one another.