He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.

To be thankful for what we grasp exceeding our proportion is to add hypocrisy to injustice.

Farewell, farewell to thee, Araby's daughter! Thus warbled a Peri beneath the dark sea.

Why are we never quite at ease in the presence of a schoolmaster? Because we are conscious that he is not quite at his ease in ours. He is awkward, and out of place in the society of his equals. He comes like Gulliver from among his little people, and he cannot fit the stature of his understanding to yours.

Our spirits grow gray before our hairs.

I have passed all my days in London, until I have formed as many and intense local attachments as any of you mountaineers can have done with dead nature.

Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.