He was, indeed, in a condition, in which, if reason had interposed, though only to advise, she might have received the answer which one Cleostratus gave many years ago to a silly fellow, who asked him, if he was not ashamed to be drunk? 'Are not you,' said Cleostratus, 'ashamed to admonish a drunken man?'--To say the truth, in a court of justice drunkenness must not be an excuse, yet in a court of conscience it is greatly so.

In reality, the world have payed too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them men of much greater profundity than they really are.

Distinction without a difference.

Can any man have a higher notion of the rule of right and the eternal fitness of things?

Peu de bipedes depuis Adam ont merite le nom d'homme.

In men whom men condemn as ill I find so much of goodness still. In men whom men pronounce divine I find so much of sin and blot I do not dare to draw a line B…

Judge not, before you judge yourself. Judge not, if you're not ready for judgement, whoa oh oh