The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I had gained a new friend. When I read a book over I have perused before, it resembles the meeting with an old one.

The work of eradicating crimes is not by making punishment familiar, but formidable.

You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.

Absence, like death, sets a seal on the image of those we love: we cannot realize the intervening changes which time may have effected.

I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.

Politics resemble religion; attempting to divest either of ceremony is the most certain mode of bringing either into contempt.

Creation's heir, the world, the world is mine!