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.

It is the ignorant and childish part of mankind that is the fighting part. Idle and vacant minds want excitement

Defect in manners is usually the defect of fine perceptions. Elegance comes of no breeding, but of birth.

God screens us evermore from premature ideas.

The Gothic cathedral is a blossoming in stone subdued by the insatiable demand of harmony in man.

We commonly say that the rich man can speak the truth, can afford honesty, can afford independence of opinion and action;--and that is the theory of nobility. But it is the rich man in a true sense, that is to say, not the man of large income and large expenditure, but solely the man whose outlay is less than his income and is steadily kept so.

Nature will not let us fret and fume. She does not like our benevolence or our learning much better than she likes our frauds andwars. When we come out of the caucus, or the bank, or the abolition-convention, or the temperance-meeting, or the transcendental club, into the fields and woods, she says to us, "so hot? my little Sir.