“Such hope. It breaks your heart.”

“It was my duty to... Oh, hell. Of course, duty had nothing to do with it. I just wanted to get back at her and this was the only way that presented itself.”

“God or Fate or some mysterious force can put the finger on you or me for no good reason at all.”

“I have known many of those pretended champions for liberty in my time, yet do I not remember one that was not in his heart and in his family a tyrant.”

“You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.”

“law grinds the poor, rich men rule the law”

“Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.”