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

The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.

And here were forests ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.

Some persons have contended that mathematics ought to be taught by making the illustrations obvious to the senses. Nothing can be more absurd or injurious: it ought to be our never-ceasing effort to make people think, not feel.

The sense of beauty is intuitive, and beauty itself is all that inspires pleasure without, and aloof from, and even contrarily to interest.

I do not call the sod under my feet my country; but language-religion-government-blood-identity in these makes men of one country.

All powerful souls have kindred with each other