“I love to lose myself in other men's minds. When I am not walking, I am reading.”

“I love to lose myself in other men's minds”

“I remember an hypothesis argued upon by the young students, when I was at St. Omer's, and maintained with much learning and pleasantry on both sides, 'Whether supposing that the flavour of a big who obtained his death by whipping (per flagellationem extremem) superadded a pleasure upon the palate of a man more intense than any possible suffering we can conceive in the animal, is man justified in using that method of putting an animal to death?' I forget the decision.”

“Don't introduce me to that man! I want to go on hating him, and I can't hate a man whom I know.”

“I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.”

“Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.”

“A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins.”