This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.

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

There is no such thing as a worthless book though there are some far worse than worthless; no book that is not worth preserving, if its existence may be tolerated; as there may be some men whom it may be proper to hang, but none should be suffered to starve.

To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.

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

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.

We must not be guilty of taking the law into our own hands, and converting it from what it really is to what we think it ought to be.