Moral sentences appear ostentatious and tumid, when they have no greater occasions than the journey of a wit to his home town: yet such pleasures and such pains make up the general mass of life; and as nothing is little to him that feels it with gre

For gold the hireling judge distorts the laws.

Our aspirations are our possibilities.

We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.

Sir, as a man advances in life, he gets what is better than admiration, - judgement, to estimate things at their true value.

Consider what importance to society the chastity of women is. Upon that all the property in the world depends. We hang a thief for stealing a sheep; but the unchastity of a woman transfers sheep and farm and all from the right owner.

Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased at a lesser price.