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April 17.
This world seems to me a vortex inhabited by a people whose heads are spinning.
The dying inherit from the dead.
The thoughts of the Greeks, like ours, wear short clothes.
Works of Lysias. One can plainly see from the turns of phrase these Athenian orators use that litigants had more to hope or fear from the judges than from the law. In our French courts, one claimed one’s rights with much greater assurance and loftiness. This was because those rights were fixed more invariably by laws of which the judges were deemed merely the ministers. It was these laws one invoked. The ancients addressed only the judges and concerned themselves only with softening them.
The Latin language abounded in oratorical words and turns. When speaking in cases that were not solemn, the Athenians did not use the compartments called exordium, narration, and peroration. This distribution... (See Isaeus).
Opinion is mobile, but feeling is not. This is murky; but it is true.
May 2.
History (as someone very well said) is even better suited to giving us patience than foresight.
April 29.
That the ceremonies of Catholicism train one in civility.
May 2.
The visible body is a surcoat. The other body is a tunic.
May 5.
Of the human ear, or of opinion.
Justice is the right of the weaker.
Good nature and business.—Business has a kind of deformity that good nature softens. It goes so far as to lend business appeal.
May 7.
Imprisoned in our body... and our soul has its windows.