Ignorance, Madam, Pure Ignorance.

All Severity That Does Not Tend To Increase Good, Or Prevent Evil, Is Idle.

Be Not Too Hasty To Trust Or To Admire The Teachers Of Morality; They Discourse Like Angels, But They Live Like Men.

To See Helpless Infancy Stretching Out Her Hands, And Pouring Out Her Cries In Testimony Of Dependence, Without Any Powers To Alarm Jealousy, Or Any Guilt To Alienate Affection, Must Surely Awaken Tenderness In Every Human Mind; And Tenderness Once Excited Will Be Hourly Increased By The Natural Contagion Of Felicity, By The Repercussion Of Communicated Pleasure, By The Consciousness Of Dignity Of Benefaction.

Lawyers Know Life Practically. A Bookish Man Should Always Have Them To Converse With.

Pity Is Not Natural To Man. Children Always Are Cruel. Savages Are Always Cruel.