The curiosity of an honorable mind willingly rests there, where the love of truth does not urge it farther onward, and the love of its neighbor bids it stop; in other words, it willingly stops at the point where the interests of truth do not beckon it onward, and charity cries, Halt!

As long as there are readers to be delighted with calumny, there will be found reviewers to calumniate.

Remorse weeps tears of blood.

In wonder all philosophy began, in wonder it ends, and admiration fill up the interspace; but the first wonder is the offspring of ignorance, the last is the parent of adoration.

Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.

A Court has no right to strain the law because it causes hardship.

No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.