Sublimity is Hebrew by birth.

Poetry is certainly something more than good sense, but it must be good sense, at all events, just as a palace is more than a house, but it must be a house, at least.

How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.

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

If people could learn history, what lessons it might teach us!

Hence, viper thoughts, that coil around my mind,Reality's dark dream!I turn from you, and listen to the wind,Which long has raved unnoticed.

It is the duty of the Judge in criminal trials to take care that the verdict of the jury is not founded upon any evidence except that which the law allows.