Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.

The form of truth will bear exposure, as well as that of beauty herself.

And all who heard should see them there, And all should cry, Beware! Beware! His flashing eyes, his floating hair! Weave a circle round him thrice, And close your eyes with holy dread, For he on honey-dew hath fed, And drunk the milk of Paradise.

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.

That saints will aid if men will call; For the blue sky bends over all!

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.

Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.