A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.

Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new compositions, any bungler can add to the old.

I would rather sleep in the southern corner of a little country churchyard than in the tomb of the Capulets.

The nature of things is, I admit, a sturdy adversary.

The wise determine from the gravity of the case; the irritable, from sensibility to oppression; the high minded, from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands.

It is the function of a judge not to make but to declare the law, according to the golden mete-wand of the law and not by the crooked cord of discretion.

Man is by his constitution a religious animal.