The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings.

To admire on principle is the only way to imitate without loss of originality.

Often do the spirits stride on before the event; and in today already walks tomorrow.

Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from.

Oh Sleep! it is a gentle thing, beloved from pole to pole, to Mary Queen the praise be given! She sent the gentle sleep from Heaven, that slid into my soul.

In wonder all philosophy began, in wonder it ends, and admiration fill up the interspace; but the first wonder is the offspring of ignorance, the last is the parent of adoration.

Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills. We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.