"It is a principle of the human mind, that the more we have, the more we want, and the less we have, the less we want."

"There are very few people, I imagine, who have not, at some time or other, been in love with some object or other."

"I believe that the present system of prison discipline is a failure."

"There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated."

"It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade."