Justice is truth in action.

In politics, nothing is contemptible.

The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established a society which has mistaken comfort for civilisation.

There is anguish in the recollection that we have not adequately appreciated the affection of those whom we have loved and lost.

The feeling of satiety, almost inseparable from large possessions, is a surer cause of misery than ungratified desires.

Religion should be the rule of life, not a casual incident in it.

Christianity teaches us to love our neighbor as ourself; modern society acknowledges no neighbor.

Accent and emphasis are the pith of reading; punctuation is but secondary.

Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.

Proverbs were anterior to boots, and formed the wisdom of the vulgar, and in the earliest ages were the unwritten laws of morality.

Everything comes if a man will only wait.

You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.

Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.

A canter is the cure for all evil.

A great thing is a great book; but a greater thing than all is the talk of a great man.

Turtle makes all men equal.

If you're not very clever you should be conciliatory.

Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.

We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.

The originality of a subject is in its treatment.