A certain class of novels may with propriety be called fables.
Better too much form than too little.
A man will never change his mind if he have no mind to change.
The first requisite of style, not only in rhetoric, but in all compositions, is perspicuity.
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.
One way in which fools succeed where wise men fail is that through ignorance of the danger they sometimes go coolly about a hazardous business.