If we require more perfection from women than from ourselves, it is doing them honor.

Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.

Sorrow is a kind of rust of the soul, which every new idea contributes in its passage to scour away. It is the putrefaction of stagnant life, and is remedied by exercise and motion.

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.

The limbs will quiver and move after the soul is gone.

For gold the hireling judge distorts the laws.