Cant is the parrot talk of a profession.

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

The heart should have fed upon the truth, as insects on a leaf, till it be tinged with the color, and show its food in every ... minutest fiber.

The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.

The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings.

That agony returns; And till my ghastly tale is told, This heart within me burns.

Like one, that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round walks on, And turns no more his head; Because he knows, a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread.