I accept refreshment at any hands, however lowly.

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.

Saturday afternoon, although occurring at regular and well-foreseen intervals, always takes this railway by surprise.

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.

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

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

There's a fascination frantic in a ruin that's romantic.