Call not that man wretched, who whatever else he suffers as to pain inflicted, or pleasure denied, has a child for whom he hopes and on whom he doats.

An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

It would not be correct to say that every moral obligation involves a legal duty; but every legal duty is founded on a moral obligation.

If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.

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.

O it is pleasant, with a heart at ease, Just after sunset, or by moonlight skies, To make the shifting clouds be what you please.

It [is] very unfair to influence a child's mind by inculcating any opinions before it [has] come to years of discretion to choose for itself.