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

Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.

What comes from the heart goes to the heart

The whole faculties of man must be exerted in order to call forth noble energies; and he who is not earnestly sincere lives in but half his being, self-mutilated, self-paralyzed.

A Falsehood is, in one sense, a dead thing; but too often it moves about, galvanized by self-will, and pushes the living out of their seats.

Rage is essentially vulgar.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. For what is enthusiasm but the oblivion and swallowing-up of self in an object dearer than self?