Justice consists in doing no injury to men decency in giving them no offense.

The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.

It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

I shall always consider the best guesser the best prophet.

Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.