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

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.

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

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

A great mind must be androgynous.

May all the stars hang bright above her dwelling, Silent as though they watched the sleeping earth!

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