To have all those noble Romans alive before me, and walking in and out for my entertainment, instead of being the stern taskmasters they had been at school, was a most novel and delightful effect.

“Because, sir, the way I look at it is that we are all drawing on to the bottom …”

“My dear young lady, crime, like death, is not confined to the old and withered …”

“When you see your own bright beauty springing up anew at your feet, think now a…”

“Not to know that no space of regret can make amends for one life's misused oppu…”