Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.

There are vices which have no hold upon us, but in connection with others; and which, when you cut down the trunk, fall like the branches.

We see neither justice nor injustice which does not change its nature with change in climate. Three degrees of latitude reverse all jurisprudence; a meridian decides the truth.

Mediocrity makes the most of its native possessions.

Justice is as much a matter of fashion as charm is.

It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.

Everything that is written merely to please the author is worthless.