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.

Death but supplies the oil for the inextinguishable lamp of life.

You see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it - low, vulgar, meddling with everything, assuming universal competency, and flattering every base passion - and sneering at everything noble refined and truly national. The direct tyranny will come on by and by, after it shall have gratified the multitude with the spoil and ruin of the old institutions of the land.

We must not be guilty of taking the law into our own hands, and converting it from what it really is to what we think it ought to be.

Words in prose ought to express the intended meaning; if they attract attention to themselves, it is a fault; in the very best styles you read page after page without noticing the medium. Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are, the more necessary it is to be plain.

May all the stars hang bright above her dwelling, Silent as though they watched the sleeping earth!

The once red leaf, the last of its clan, that dances as often as dance it can.