Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.

I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.

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

He prayeth best who loveth best.

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

The many men, so beautiful! And they all dead did lie: And a thousand thousand slimy things Lived on; and so did I.

Happiness can be built only on virtue, and must of necessity have truth for its foundation.