Rejecting the miracles of Christ, we still have the miracle of Christ Himself.

The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.

The heart contracts as the pocket expands.

Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.

To quote copiously and well, requires taste, judgment, and erudition, a feeling for the beautiful, an appreciation of the noble, and a sense of the profound.

A better principle than this, that "the majority shall rule," is this other, that justice shall rule. "Justice," says the code of Justinian, "is the constant and perpetual desire to render every man his due.

Affliction, like the iron-smith, shapes as it smites.