Every instance of a man's suffering the penalty of the law is an instance of the failure of that penalty in effecting its purpose, which is to deter.

It is worth noticing that those who assume an imposing demeanor and seek to pass themselves off for something beyond what they are, are not unfrequently as much underrated by some as overrated by others.

It may be worth noticing as a curious circumstance, when persons past forty before they were at all acquainted form together a very close intimacy of friendship. For grafts of old wood to take, there must be a wonderful congeniality between the trees.

Neither human applause nor human censure is to be taken as the best of truth; but either should set us upon testing ourselves.

When a man says he wants to work, what he means is that he wants wages.

It is folly to shiver over last year's snow.

A certain class of novels may with propriety be called fables.