I should like to see any kind of man, distinguishable from a gorilla, that some good and even pretty woman could not shape a husband out of.

Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.

I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected.

Nothing can be so perfect while we possess it as it will seem when remembered.

The great end of being is to harmonize man with the order of things, and the church has been a good pitch-pipe, and may be so still.

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

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