Detached reflection cannot be demanded in the presence of an uplifted knife.

This is a court of law, not a court of justice.

I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy - I don't disparage envy, but I don't accept it as legitimately my master.

A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.

You hear that boy laughing?you think he's all fun; But the angels laugh, too, at the good he has done; The children laugh loud as they troop to his call, And the poor man that knows him laughs loudest of all.

In order to know whether a human being is young or old, offer it food of different kinds at short intervals. If young, it will eat anything at any hour of the day or night.

We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible.