The maxim of courts is that manner is power.

There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.

Remarkable trait in the American Character is the union, not very infrequent, of Yankee cleverness with spiritualism.

The days are made on a loom whereof the warp and woof are past and future time. They are majestically dressed, as if every god brought a thread to the skyey web.

The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks.

He who does a good deed is instantly ennobled. He who does a mean deed is by the action itself contracted.

All necessary truth is its own evidence.