To see him act is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning.

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.

Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from.

I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.

The Language of the Dream/Night is contrary to that of Waking/Day. It is a language of Images and Sensations, the various dialects of which are far less different from each other, than the various Day-Languages of Nations.

To see him act is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning.

The words in prose ought to express the intended meaning, and no more; if they attract attention to themselves, it is, in general, a fault.