Who said “He must have known me had he seen me as he was wont to see me, for he was in the habit…”?

“Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to Heaven.”

“Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.”

“Punishment is the last and least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.”

“Our system is the height of absurdity, since we treat the culprit both as a child, so as to have the right to punish him, and as an adult, in order to deny him consolation.”

“No one provokes me with impunity.”

“Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.”

“Book love, my friends, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.”

“As to that leisure evening of life, I must say that I do not want it. I can conceive of no contentment of which toil is not to be the immediate parent.”

“Above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you very much at your own reckoning.”

“The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little -- or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives.”

“Marvelous is the power which can be exercised, almost unconsciously, over a company, or an individual, or even upon a crowd by one person gifted with good temper, good digestion, good intellects, and good looks.”