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

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

He went like one that hath been stunn'd, And is of sense forlorn: A sadder and a wiser man He rose the morrow morn.

Democracy is the healthful lifeblood which circulates through the veins and arteries, which supports the system, but which ought never to appear externally, and as the mere blood itself.

There are three classes into which all the women past seventy that ever I knew were to be divided: 1. That dear old soul; 2. That old woman; 3. That old witch.

Remorse weeps tears of blood.

Never can true courage dwell with them, Who, playing tricks with conscience, dare not look At their own vices.