Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not.

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.

Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.

As there is much beast and some devil in man, so is there some angel and some God in him. The beast and the devil may be conquered, but in this life never destroyed.

That agony returns; And till my ghastly tale is told, This heart within me burns.

If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.

People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.