"Lawyers Are": The only civil delinquents whose judges must of necessity be chosen from (amongst) themselves.

The reign of terror to which France submitted has been more justly termed "the reign of cowardice." One knows not which most to execrate,--the nation that could submit to suffer such atrocities, or that low and bloodthirsty demagogue that could inflict them. France, in succumbing to such a wretch as Robespierre, exhibited, not her patience, but her pusillanimity.

In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.

Perhaps that is nearly the perfection of good writing which is original, but whose truth alone prevents the reader from suspecting that it is so; and which effects that for knowledge which the lens effects for the sunbeam, when it condenses its brightness in order to increase its force.

Pity a thing often avowed, seldom felt; hatred is a thing often felt, seldom avowed.

Secrecy of design, when combined with rapidity of execution, like me column that guided Israel in the deserts, becomes the guardian pillar of light and fire to our friends, a cloud of overwhelming and impenetrable darkness to our enemies.

Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one, on which we must first erase.