Love may exist with out jealousy, although this is rare; but jealousy can exist without love, and this is common, for jealousy can feed on that which is bitter, no less than that which is sweet, and is sustained by pride, as often as by affection.

Life often presents us with a choice of evils, rather than of goods.

Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.

Law and equity are two things which God hath joined, but which man hath put asunder.