The rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. "Thou shalt not" is their characteristic formula.

I have found words [in the Bible] for my inmost thoughts, songs for my joy, utterances for my hidden griefs, and pleadings for my shame and my feebleness.

To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.

The fair breeze blew, The white foam flew, And the forrow followed free. We were the first to ever burst into the silent sea.

We must follow the old authorities and precedents in criminal matters.

Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge.

Our own heart, and not other men's opinion, forms our true honor.