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

The love of indolence is universal, or next to it.

A nation to be great ought to be compressed in its increment by nations more civilized than itself.

So will I build my altar in the fields, And the blue sky my fretted dome shall be, And the sweet fragrance that the wild flower yields Shall be the incense I will yield to thee.

The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.

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.

Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They have tried their talents at one thing or another and have failed; therefore they turn critic.