Power, carried to extremes, is always liable to reaction.

No lawyer can afford to be ignorant of the Bible.

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.

Knowledge is power as well as fame.

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.

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.

A book is the only immortality.