The sense of beauty is intuitive, and beauty itself is all that inspires pleasure without, and aloof from, and even contrarily to interest.

The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings.

I attended [Sir Humphry] Davy's lectures to renew my stock of metaphors.

A Court has no right to strain the law because it causes hardship.

The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.

I do not wish you to act from these truths; no, still and always act from your feelings; only meditate often on these truths that sometime or other they may become your feelings.

Forth from his dark and lonely hiding-place, (Portentous sight!) the owlet Atheism, sailing on obscene wings athwart the noon, drops his blue-fringed lids, and holds them close, and hooting at the glorious sun in Heaven, cries out, ''Where is it?''