Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.

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

Chance is but the pseudonym of God for those particular cases, which he does not choose to acknowledge openly with his own sign manual.

It is the duty of the Judge in criminal trials to take care that the verdict of the jury is not founded upon any evidence except that which the law allows.

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

Veracity does not consist in saying, but in the intention of communicating the truth.

Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.