Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business.

From its peaceful bosom spring none but fond regrets and tender recollections.

The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.

A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion.

The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.

How idle a boast, after all, is the immortality of a name! Time is ever silently turning over his pages; we are too much engrossed by the story of the present to think of the character and anecdotes that gave interest to the past; and each age is a volume thrown aside and forgotten.

Jealous people poison their own banquet and then eat it