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

In all the woes that curse our race there is a lady in the case.

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.

I always voted at my party's call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all.

Life is a joke that's just begun.

A popular speaker, however unpopular and insignificant, has only to wind up his speech with half-a-dozen lines of Shakespeare (and to make it clearly understood that they are Shakespeare's) and he will sit down amid thunders of applause.

The Law is the true embodiment of everything that's excellent; it has no kind of fault or flaw and I, my Lords, embody the Law.