Where Washington hath left His awful memory A light for after times!

For society, of all places I have ever been, Norwich is the best.

By writing much, one learns to write well.

War, even in the best state of an army, with all the alleviations of courtesy and honor, with all the correctives of morality and religion, is nevertheless so great an evil, that to engage in it without a clear necessity is a crime of the blackest dye. When the necessity is clear, it then becomes a crime to shrink from it.

Thou hast been called, O sleep, the friend of woe, But 'tis the happy that have called thee so.

It behooves us always to bear in mind, that while actions are always to be judged by the immutable standard of right and wrong, the judgments which we pass upon men must be qualified by considerations of age, country, station, and other accidental circumstances; and it will then be found that he who is most charitable in his judgment is generally the least unjust.

A wise judge, by the craft of the law, was never seduced from its purpose.