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

We have to administer the law whether we like it or no.

Motives by excess reverse their very nature and instead of exciting, stun and stupefy the mind.

Forth from his dark and lonely hiding-place, (Portentous sight!) the owlet Atheism, sailing on obscene wings athwart the noon, drops his blue-fringed lids, and holds them close, and hooting at the glorious sun in Heaven, cries out, ''Where is it?''

Sublimity is Hebrew by birth.

Why aren't more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books aren't within everybody's reach.

The fancy is indeed no other than a mode of memory emancipated from the order of time and space.