The schoolmaster is abroad, and I trust to him, armed with his primer, against the soldier in full military array...

What individual can so well assess the amount of damages which a plaintiff ought to recover for an injury he has received than an intelligent jury?

It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything.

A lawyer is a gentleman that rescues your estate from your enemies and then keeps it for himself.

Pursuit of knowledge under difficulties.

War is a crime which involves all other crimes.

The same Being that fashioned the insect, whose existence is only discerned by a microscope, and gave that invisible speck a system of ducts and other organs to perform its vital functions, created the enormous mass of the planet thirteen hundred times larger than our earth, and launched it in its course round the sun, and the comet, wheeling with a velocity that would carry it round our globe in less than two minutes of time, and yet revolving through so prodigious a space that it takes near six centuries to encircle the sun!