Detestation of the high is the involuntary homage of the low.
The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.
There can't be a quarrel without two parties, and I won't be one. I will be a friend to you in spite of you. So now you know what you've got to expect
It is because I think so much of warm and sensitive hearts, that I would spare them from being wounded.
From the beginning, she had sat looking at him fixedly. As he now leaned back in his chair, and bent his deep-set eyes upon her in his turn, perhaps he might have seen one wavering moment in her, when...
The New Testament is the very best book that ever was or ever will be known in the world.
There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.
Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that.
The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you.
There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.
The suspense: the fearful, acute suspense: of standing idly by while the life of one we dearly love, is trembling in the balance; the racking thoughts that crowd upon the mind, and make the heart beat...
I never had one hour's happiness in her society, and yet my mind all round the four-and-twenty hours was harping on the happiness of having her with me unto death.
A very little key will open a very heavy door.
Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.
If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.
[Credit is a system whereby] a person who can't pay, gets another person who can't pay, to guarantee that he can pay.
You have been the last dream of my soul.
Herbert Pocket had a frank and easy way about him that was very taking. I had never seen anyone then, and I have never seen anyone since, who more strongly expressed to me, in every look and tone, a n...
The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will
The universe makes rather an indifferent parent, I'm afraid.