Even a dog knows the difference between being kicked and being stumbled over.

Apology is only egotism wrong side out.

A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide.

I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Yes, child of suffering, thou may'st well be sure He who ordained the Sabbath loves the poor!

Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.

Life as we call it, is nothing but the edge of the boundless ocean of existence when it comes upon soundings.