The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.

Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.

There is something frightful in the way in which not only characteristic qualities, but particular manifestations of them, are repeated from generation to generation.

What I wouldn't give to be seventy again!

As for the excellent little wretches who grow up in what they are taught, with never a scruple or a query, ... they signify nothing in the intellectual life of the race.

The history of what the law has been is necessary to the knowledge of what the law is.

Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.