Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man

False doctrine does not necessarily make a man a heretic, but an evil heart can make any doctrine heretical.

Words in prose ought to express the intended meaning; if they attract attention to themselves, it is a fault; in the very best styles you read page after page without noticing the medium. Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are, the more necessary it is to be plain.

It is the duty of the Judge in criminal trials to take care that the verdict of the jury is not founded upon any evidence except that which the law allows.

Readers may be divided into four classes: 1) Sponges, who absorb all that they read and return it in nearly the same state, only a little dirtied. 2) Sand-glasses, who retain nothing and are content to get through a book for the sake of getting through the time. 3) Strain-bags, who retain merely the dregs of what they read. 4) Mogul diamonds, equally rare and valuable, who profit by what they read, and enable others to profit by it also

This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.

Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.