The form of truth will bear exposure, as well as that of beauty herself.

There is nothing insignificant-nothing.

May all the stars hang bright above her dwelling, Silent as though they watched the sleeping earth!

As long as we have to administer the law we must do so according to the law as it is. We are not here to make the law.

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.

A Falsehood is, in one sense, a dead thing; but too often it moves about, galvanized by self-will, and pushes the living out of their seats.

Nothing is as contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory of the myth of Orpheus; it moves stones, and charms brutes. It is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it.