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.

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.

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.

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

Mathematics may, be briefly defined as the science of quantities, and is one of the most important of disciplining studies which engage the practical student.

A book is the only immortality.

Neither irony nor sarcasm is argument.