Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends! Hath he not always treasures, always friends, The good great man? Three treasures, love and light, And calm thoughts, regular as infants' breath; And three firm friends, more sure than day and night, Himself, his Maker, and the angel Death.

That only can with propriety be styled refinement which, by strengthening the intellect, purifies the manners.

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.

The most general definition of beauty ... Multeity in Unity.

The primary notion i hold to be the Living Power.

A rogue is a roundabout fool.

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