A system-grinder hates the truth.
The sermon which I write inquisitive of truth is good a year after, but that which is written because a sermon must be writ is musty the next day.
He who does a good deed is instantly ennobled. He who does a mean deed is by the action itself contracted.
In self-trust all the virtues are comprehended.
It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem.
The good judge is not he who does hair-splitting justice to every allegation, but who, aiming at substantial justice, rules something intelligible of the guidance of suitors.