Genius appeals to the future.

The right eloquence needs no bell to call the people together, and no constable to keep them.

I am become a transparent eyeball.

Yet time and space are but inverse measures of the force of the soul. The spirit sports with time.

Teach that God is, not was; that He speaketh, not spake.

The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies all his qualifications, but who throws himself on your part so heartily, that he can get you out of a scrape.

The human body is a magazine of inventions, the patent office, where are the models from which every hint is taken. All the tools and engines on earth are only extensions of its limbs and senses.