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

It is a gentle and affectionate thought, that in immeasurable height above us, at our first birth, the wreath of love was woven with sparkling stars for flowers.

Taste is the intermediate faculty which connects the active with the passive powers of our nature, the intellect with the senses; and its appointed function is to elevate the images of the latter, while it realizes the ideas of the former.

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

I do not wish you to act from these truths; no, still and always act from your feelings; only meditate often on these truths that sometime or other they may become your feelings.

The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.

A people are free in proportion as they form their own opinions.