Every age and every nation has certain characteristic vices, which prevail almost universally, which scarcely any person scruples to avow, and which even rigid moralists but faintly censure. Succeeding generations change the fashion of their morals with the fashion of their hats and their coaches; take some other kind of wickedness under their patronage, and wonder at the depravity of their ancestors.

A system in which the two great commandments are to hate your neighbor and to love your neighbor's wife.

What society wants is a new motive, not a new cant.

The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

More sinners are cursed at not because we despise their sins but because we envy their success at sinning.

The Saviour of mankind Himself, in whose blameless life malice could find no act to impeach, has been called in question for words spoken.

The real object of the drama is the exhibition of human character.