The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.

And here were forests ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.

As long as we have to administer the law we must do so according to the law as it is. We are not here to make the law.

Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man

Health is a great blessing--competence obtained by honorable industry is a great blessing--and a great blessing it is to have kind, faithful, and loving friends and relatives; but, that the greatest of all blessings, as it is the most ennobling of all privileges, is to be indeed a Christian.

I do not call the sod under my feet my country; but language-religion-government-blood-identity in these makes men of one country.

A man's desire is for the woman, but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.