We are now Courts of equity, and must decide the thing according to all the rights.

There is no slight danger from general ignorance; and the only choice which Providence has graciously left to a vicious government is either to fall by the people, if they are suffered to become enlightened, or with them, if they are kept enslaved and ignorant.

For I often please myself with the fancy, now that I may have saved from oblivion the only striking passage in a whole volume, and now that I may have attracted notice to a writer undeservedly forgotten.

Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.

Veracity does not consist in saying, but in the intention of communicating the truth.

A noise like of a hidden brook In the leafy month of June, That to the sleeping woods all night Singeth a quiet tune.

If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.