Oh Sleep! it is a gentle thing, beloved from pole to pole, to Mary Queen the praise be given! She sent the gentle sleep from Heaven, that slid into my soul.

For she belike hath drunken deep Of all the blessedness of sleep.

There is one art of which people should be masters - the art of reflection.

How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.

An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches with spire steeples which point as with a silent finger to the sky and stars.

The necessity for external government to man is in an inverse ratio to the vigor of his self-government. Where the last is most complete, the first is least wanted. Hence, the more virtue the more liberty.

I am sure from my experience of juries that, in a criminal case especially, they will obey the law as declared by the Judge; they will take the law from the Judge, whether they like it or do not like it, and apply it honestly to the facts before them.