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.

If people could learn history, what lessons it might teach us!

If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.

Often do the spirits stride on before the event; and in today already walks tomorrow.

Her skin was white as leprosy.

May all the stars hang bright above her dwelling, Silent as though they watched the sleeping earth!

You may depend upon it, religion is, in its essence, the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It will alone gentilize, if unmixed with cant; and I know nothing else that will, alone. Certainly not the army, which is thought to be the grand embellisher of manners.