Few take advice, or physic, without wry faces at it.

A lawyer's brief will be brief, before a freethinker thinks freely.

Light, when suddenly let in, dazzles and hurts and almost blinds us: but this soon passes away, and it seems to become the only element we can exist in.

It is natural that affluence should be followed by influence.

We like slipping, but not falling; our real anxiety is to be tempted enough.

Forms and regularity of proceeding, if they are not justice, partake much of the nature of justice, which, in its highest sense, is the spirit of distributive order.

Poetry is to philosophy what the Sabbath is to the rest of the week.