Motives by excess reverse their very nature and instead of exciting, stun and stupefy the mind.

A Falsehood is, in one sense, a dead thing; but too often it moves about, galvanized by self-will, and pushes the living out of their seats.

Novels are to love as fairy tales to dreams.

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.

And in today already walks tomorrow.

An idea, in the highest sense of that word, cannot be conveyed but by a symbol.

The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.