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?

Everyone believes that he abounds in wisdom, but is short of money.

[The imagination] . . . inspires an audacious mental habit. We are as elastic as the gas of gunpowder, and . . . a word dropped in conversation, sets free our fancy, and instantly our heads are bathed with galaxies, and our feet tread the floor of the Pit.

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 poor man, whom the law does not allow to take . . . a pair of shoes for his freezing feet, is allowed to put his hand into the pocket of the rich, and say, You shall educate me. . . .

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

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