Is it possible for a man to move the earth? Yes; but he must first find out another earth to stand upon.

We may scatter the seeds of courtesy and kindness about us at little expense. Some of them will fall on good ground, and grow up into benevolence in the minds of others, and all of them will bear fruit of happiness in the bosom whence they spring.

If Christianity needed an Anti-Christ, they needed look no farther than Paul.

The law of England has established trial by judge and jury in the conviction that it is the mode best calculated to ascertain the truth.

In the mind of all, fiction, in the logical sense, has been the coin of necessity;—in that of poets of amusement—in that of the priest and the lawyer of mischievous immorality in the shape of mischievous ambition,—and too often both priest and lawyer have framed or made in part this instrument.

Reputation is the road to power

Among the several cloudy appellatives which have been commonly employed as cloaks for misgovernment, there is none more conspicuous in this atmosphere of illusion than the word Order.