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

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.

Christianity is within a man, even as he is gifted with reason; it is associated with your mother's chair, and with the first remembered, tones of her blessed voice.

The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.

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

Genius must have talent as its complement and implement, just as in like manner imagination must have fancy. In short, the higher intellectual powers can only act through a corresponding energy of the lower.

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