Law grows, and though the principles of law remain unchanged, yet (and it is one of the advantages of the common law) their application is to be changed with the changing circumstances of the times. Some persons may call this retrogression, I call it progression of human opinion.

Rage is essentially vulgar.

Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.

Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.

All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.

Friends should be weighed, not told; who boasts to have won a multitude of friends has never had one.

Above all things I entreat you to preserve your faith in Christ. It is my wealth in poverty, my joy in sorrow, my peace amid tumult. For all the evil I have committed, my gracious pardon; and for every effort, my exceeding great reward. I have found it to be so. I can smile with pity at the infidel whose vanity makes him dream that I should barter such a blessing for the few subtleties from the school of the cold-blooded sophists.