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

There is one art of which people should be masters - the art of reflection.

A Gothic church is a petrified religion.

The curiosity of an honorable mind willingly rests there, where the love of truth does not urge it farther onward, and the love of its neighbor bids it stop; in other words, it willingly stops at the point where the interests of truth do not beckon it onward, and charity cries, Halt!

Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.

We are now Courts of equity, and must decide the thing according to all the rights.

Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!