Dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical.

I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute.

Justice is what is established; and thus all our established laws will necessarily be regarded as just without examination, since they are established.

One must have deeper motives and judge everything accordingly, but go on talking like an ordinary person.

Don't try to add more years to your life. Better add more life to your years.

Kind words produce their own image in men's souls; and a beautiful image it is. They soothe and quiet and comfort the hearer. They shame him out of his sour, morose, unkind feelings. We have not yet begun to use kind words in such abundance as they ought to be used.

Now, if the passions had no hold on us, a week and a hundred years would amount to the same.