All that is literature seeks to communicate power

If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination.

Thou hast the keys of Paradise, oh, just, subtle, and mighty opium!

It was a Sunday afternoon, wet and cheerless; and a duller spectacle this earth of ours has not to show than a rainy Sunday in London.

There is a necessity for a regulating discipline of exercise that, whilst evoking the human energies, will not suffer them to be wasted.

A promise is binding in the inverse ratio of the numbers to whom it is made.

The public is a bad guesser.