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

I never knew a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or other.

Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge.

Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.

Look through the whole history of countries professing the Romish religion, and you will uniformly find the leaven of this besetting and accursed principle of action - that the end will sanction any means.

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.

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