To sit in solemn silence on a dull, dark dock in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp shock from a cheap and chippy chopper on a big, black block.

Spurn not the nobly born with love affected; nor treat with virtuous scorn the well connected.

Man is nature's sole mistake.

He did nothing in particular, and did it very well.

My object all sublime I shall achieve in time- To let the punishment fit the crime- The punishment fit the crime.

If you're anxious to shine in the high aesthetic line as a man of culture rare, you must get up all the germs of the transcendental terms, and plant them everywhere.

Deerstalking would be a very fine sport if only the deer had guns.