My case is a species of madness, only that it is a derangement of the Volition, and not of the intellectual faculties.

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

Wherever you find a sentence musically worded, of true rhythm and melody in the words, there is something deep and good in the meaning too.

Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.

We must follow the old authorities and precedents in criminal matters.

The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.

Where virtue is, sensibility is the ornament and becoming attire of virtue. On certain occasions it may almost be said to become virtue. But sensibility and all the amiable qualities may likewise become, and too often have become, the panders of vice and the instruments of seduction.