A book is the only immortality.

Neither irony nor sarcasm is argument.

The courage of New England was the courage of conscience. It did not rise to that insane and awful passion, the love of war for itself.

I will look, your Honor, and endeavor to find a precedent, if you require it; though it would seem to be a pity that the Court should lose the honor of being the first to establish so just a rule.

We join ourselves to no party that does not carry the flag and I keep step to the music of the Union.

Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading.

You don't want a diction gathered from the newspapers, caught from the air, common and unsuggestive; but you want one whose every word is full-freighted with suggestion and association, with beauty and power.