A healthy man, indeed, is the complement of the seasons, and in winter, summer is in his heart.

The government itself, which is only the mode which the people have chosen to execute their will, is equally liable to be abused and perverted before the people can act through it.

When the true criminals are running around free, the only honorable place for a decent human being is in prisons.

Think of admitting the details of a single case of the criminal court into our thoughts, to stalk profanely through their very sanctum sanctorum for an hour, ay, for many hours! to make a very barroom of the mind's inmost apartment, as if for so long the dust of the street had occupied us,--the very street itself, with all its travel, its bustle, and filth, had passed through our thoughts' shrine! Would it not be an intellectual and moral suicide?

To the innocent there are neither cherubim nor angels.

A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener.

Live in each season as it passes: breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit.