“Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.”

“It is more important that innocence be protected than it is that guilt be punished, for guilt and crimes are so frequent in this world that they cannot all be punished.But if innocence itself is br...”

“A very small class of books have nothing in common say that each admits us to a world of its own that seems to have been going on before we stumbled into it, but which, once found by the right read...”

“If ever we should find ourselves disposed not to admire those writers or artists, Livy and Virgil for instance, Raphael or Michael Angelo, whom all the learned had admired, [we ought] not to follow...”

“Reading the very best writerslet us say Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Tolstoyis not going to make us better citizens. Art is perfectly useless, according to the sublime Oscar Wilde, who was right abou...”

“I am not yet come of age, my lord. How can I be queen? asked Constance fearfully.”

“I am not yet come of age, my lord. How can I be queen?” asked Constance fearfully.”