The words in prose ought to express the intended meaning, and no more; if they attract attention to themselves, it is, in general, a fault.

A Gothic church is a petrified religion.

How strange and awful is the synthesis of life and death in the gusty winds and falling leaves of an autumnal day!

It is the duty of the Judge in criminal trials to take care that the verdict of the jury is not founded upon any evidence except that which the law allows.

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.

How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.

The history of man for the nine months preceding his birth would, probably, be far more interesting and contain events of greater moment than all the three score and ten years that follow it.