You may abuse a tragedy, though you cannot write one. You may scold a carpenter who has made you a bad table, though you cannot make a table. It is not your trade to make tables.

He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dulness in others.

Cowardice encroaches fast upon such as spend their lives in company of persons higher than themselves.

I deny the lawfulness of telling a lie to a sick man for fear of alarming him; you have no business with consequences, you are to tell the truth.

We are all prompted by the same motives, all deceived by the same fallacies, all animated by hope, obstructed by danger, entangled by desire, and seduced by pleasure.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing - it only hastens fools to rush in where angels fear to tread.

Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult.