I envy thee not thy faith, which is ever in thy mouth but never in thy heart nor in thy practice

Sensibility is nature's celestial spring.

A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.

The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention... It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me.

"Charge, Chester, charge! on, Stanley, on!" Were the last words of Marmion.

One or two of these scoundrel statesmen should be shot once a-year, just to keep the others on their good behavior.

So faithful in love, and so dauntless in war, There never was knight like young Lochinvar.