In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.

Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.

Unless we love the truth we cannot know it.

Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master; for in disobeying the one we are unfortunate, and in disobeying the other we are fools.

Justice and truth are two such subtle points, that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.

The sole cause of man's unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room.

they do not know that they seek only the chase and not the quarry.