There is as much difference between good poetry and fine verses, as between the smell of a flower-garden and of a perfumer's shop.

Some men so dislike the dust kicked up by the generation they belong to, that, being unable to pass, they lag behind it.

Practical life teaches us that people may differ and that both may be wrong: it also teaches us that people may differ and both be right. Anchor yourself fast in the latter faith, or the former will sweep your heart away.

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.

Who is fit to govern others? He who governs himself. You might as well have said: nobody.

I was surprised just now at seeing a cobweb around a knocker; for it was not on the door of heaven.

The mind is like a trunk: if well-packed, it holds almost every thing; if ill-packed, next to nothing.