The artist must imitate that which is within the thing, that which is active through form and figure, and discourses to us by symbols.

I must lay down the law as I understand it, and as I read it in books of authority.

The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.

All powerful souls have kindred with each other

Health is a great blessing--competence obtained by honorable industry is a great blessing--and a great blessing it is to have kind, faithful, and loving friends and relatives; but, that the greatest of all blessings, as it is the most ennobling of all privileges, is to be indeed a Christian.

I am sure from my experience of juries that, in a criminal case especially, they will obey the law as declared by the Judge; they will take the law from the Judge, whether they like it or do not like it, and apply it honestly to the facts before them.

Friendship is a sheltering tree.