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

The love of indolence is universal, or next to it.

As long as we have to administer the law we must do so according to the law as it is. We are not here to make the law.

Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style.

And in today already walks tomorrow.

The fancy is indeed no other than a mode of memory emancipated from the order of time and space.

If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.