The moment one begins to solder right and wrong together, one's conscience becomes like a piece of plated goods.

To reason from analogy is often dangerous, but to illustrate by a fanciful analogy is sometimes a means by which we light an idea, as it were, into the understanding of another.

Opinion has ever been stronger than law.

As what we call genius arises out of the disproportionate power and size of a certain faculty, so the great difficulty lies in harmonizing with it the rest of the character.

There are no such self-deceivers as those who think they reason when they only feel.

Have the courage to appear poor and you disarm poverty of its sharpest sting.

Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.