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