Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, Its own avenging angel-dark misgiving, An ominous sinking at the inmost heart.

There is one art of which people should be masters - the art of reflection.

It is a flat'ning Thought, that the more we have seen, the less we have to say.

To doubt has more of faith ... than that blank negation of all such thoughts and feelings which is the lot of the herd of church-and-meeting trotters.

The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings.

The whole faculties of man must be exerted in order to call forth noble energies; and he who is not earnestly sincere lives in but half his being, self-mutilated, self-paralyzed.

Her skin was white as leprosy.