It is natural that affluence should be followed by influence.

Seeking is not always the way to find.

Life is the hyphen between matter and spirit.

I could hardly feel much confidence in a man who had never been imposed upon.

The body too has its rights; and it will have them: they cannot be trampled on without peril. The body ought to be the soul's best friend. Many good men however have neglected to make it such: so it has become a fiend and has plagued them.

The praises of others may be of use in teaching us, not what we are, but what we ought to be.

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.