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.

No lawyer can afford to be ignorant of the Bible.

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.

We have built no temple but the Capitol. We consult no common oracle but the Constitution.

Appropriated to justice, to security, to reason, to restraint; where there is no respect of persons; where will is nothing and power is nothing and numbers are nothing, and all are equal and all secure before the law.

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.

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