A Court has no right to strain the law because it causes hardship.

When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.

For more than a thousand years the Bible, collectively taken, has gone hand in hand with civilization science, law; in short, with the moral and intellectual cultivation of the species, always supporting and often leading he way.

If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found that flower in his hand when he awake - Aye, what then?

As long as there are readers to be delighted with calumny, there will be found reviewers to calumniate.

Where virtue is, sensibility is the ornament and becoming attire of virtue. On certain occasions it may almost be said to become virtue. But sensibility and all the amiable qualities may likewise become, and too often have become, the panders of vice and the instruments of seduction.

I must lay down the law as I understand it, and as I read it in books of authority.