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

The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired.

It is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.

That charity is bad which takes from independence its proper pride, from mendicity its salutary shame.

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.

Whatever strengthens our local attachments is favorable both to individual and national character, our home, our birthplace, our native land. Think for a while what the virtues are which arise out of the feelings connected with these words, and if you have any intellectual eyes, you will then perceive the connection between topography and patriotism.

A house is never perfectly furnished for enjoyment unless there is a child in it rising three years old, and a kitten rising three weeks.