When we reflect upon the cruelties daily practised upon such of the animal creation as are given us for food, or which we ensnarefor our diversion, we shall be obliged to own that there is more of the savage in human nature than we are aware of.
Honeymoon lasts not nowadays above a fortnight.
Who would not rather be the sufferer than the defrauder?
We are all very ready to believe what we like.
It is but shaping the bribe to the taste, and every one has his price.
Spiritual pride is the most dangerous and the most arrogant of all sorts of pride.