And to be wroth with one we love…Doth work like madness in the brain.

I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; - poetry = the best words in the best order.

Law grows, and though the principles of law remain unchanged, yet (and it is one of the advantages of the common law) their application is to be changed with the changing circumstances of the times. Some persons may call this retrogression, I call it progression of human opinion.

The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.

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

Sublimity is Hebrew by birth.

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