Who can wonder at the attractiveness... of the bar, for our ambitious young men, when the highest bribes of society are at the feet of the successful orator?

You are running to seek your friend. Let your feet run, but your mind need not.

The ideas of things intellectually known pass into the substance of the intellect much more than do foods into the substance of the body.

The fate of the poor shepherd, who, blinded and lost in the snow-storm, perishes in a drift within a few feet of his cottage door, is an emblem of the state of man.

Law it is . . . which hears without ears, sees without eyes, moves without feet and seizes without hands.

Laurel crowns cleave to deserts And power to him who power exerts; Hast not thy share? On winged feet, Lo! it rushes thee to meet; . . .

What is odious but . . . people . . . who toast their feet on the register. . . .