To leave no interval between the sentence and the fulfillment of it doth beseem God only, the Immutable!

Too soon did the doctors of the church forget that the heart--the moral nature--was the beginning and the end, and that truth, knowledge, and insight were comprehended in its expansion.

If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us. But passion and party blind our eyes, and the light which experience gives us is a lantern on the stern, which shines only on the waves behind us.

To see him act is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning.

No voice; but oh - the silence sank Like music on my heart.

We have to administer the law whether we like it or no.

In Shakespeare one sentence begets the next naturally; the meaning is all inwoven. He goes on kindling like a meteor through the dark atmosphere.