The pen is the tongue of the hand; a silent utterer of words for the eye.

Riches without law are more dangerous than is poverty without law

Public sentiment is to public officers what water is to the wheel of the mill.

The strong are God's natural protectors of the weak.

Hope is sweet-minded and sweet-eyed. It draws pictures; it weaves fancies; it fills the future with delight.

No man rides so high and in such good company as the man that allies himself to a truth.

Speak of the appetite for drink; or of a bon-vivant's relish for dinner! What are these mere animal throes and ragings compared with those fantasies of taste, of those yearning of the imagination, of those insatiable appetites of intellect, which bewilder a student in a great bookseller's temptation-hall.