Advice Is Like Snow - The Softer

We Must Follow The Old Authorities And Precedents In Criminal Matters.

How Many Of Our Virtues Originate In The Fear Of Death & That While We Flatter Ourselves That We Are Melting In Christian Sensibility Over The Sorrows Of Our Human Brethren And Sisteren, We Are In Fact, Tho' Perhaps Unconsciously, Moved At The Prospect Of Our Own End For Who Sincerely Pities Sea-sickness, Toothache, Or A Fit Of The Gout In A Lusty Good-liver Of 50?

All Sympathy Not Consistent With Acknowledged Virtue Is But Disguised Selfishness.

The History Of Man For The Nine Months Preceding His Birth Would, Probably, Be Far More Interesting And Contain Events Of Greater Moment Than All The Three Score And Ten Years That Follow It.

And The Devil Did Grin, For His Darling Sin Is Pride That Apes Humility.