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

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

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.

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

Anything more low, obscene, feculent, the manifold heaving's of history have not cast up. We shall come to the worship of onions, cats and things vermiculite.

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