Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!

Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.

Great old books of the great old authors are not in everybody's reach; and though it is better to know them thoroughly than to know them only here and there, yet it is a good work to give a little to those who have neither time nor means to get his own belief.

If you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of yourself; if with a little mind, leave him with a favorable impression of himself.

The whole faculties of man must be exerted in order to call forth noble energies; and he who is not earnestly sincere lives in but half his being, self-mutilated, self-paralyzed.

Conscience is the pulse of reason

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