They who disbelieve in virtue because man has never been found perfect, might as reasonably deny the sun because it is not always noon.

The poet sees things as they look. Is this having a faculty the less? or a sense the more?

Forms and regularity of proceeding, if they are not justice, partake much of the nature of justice, which, in its highest sense, is the spirit of distributive order.

We look to our last sickness for repentance, unmindful that it is during a recovery men repent, not during a sickness.

Seeking is not always the way to find.

Philosophy is the love of wisdom: Christianity is the wisdom of love.

A lawyer's brief will be brief, before a freethinker thinks freely.