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

The idiot who praises, with enthusiastic tone, All centuries but this, and every country but his own.

I'm really very sorry for you all, but it's an unjust world, and virtue is triumphant only in theatrical performances.

In the discovery of secret things and in the investigation of hidden causes, stronger reasons are obtained from sure experiments and demonstrated arguments than from probable conjectures and the opinions of philosophical speculators of the common sort.

I am, in point of fact, a particularly haughty and exclusive person, of pre-Adamite ancestral descent. You will understand this when I tell you that I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule.

It's love that makes the world go round.

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.