"Have we not a perpetual inclination, in the teeth of our best judgment, to violate that which is Law, merely because we understand it to be such?"

"Who has not, a hundred times, found himself committing a vile or a silly action for no other reason than because he knows he should not?"

"If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered."

"It was night, and the rain fell; and falling, it was rain, but, having fallen, it was blood."

"A wise man hears one word and understands two."