The married should not forget that to speak of love begets love.

It has pleased God that divine verities should not enter the heart through the understanding, but the understanding through the heart.

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

No one is discontented at not being a king except a discrowned king ... unhappiness almost invariably indicates the existence of a road not taken, a talent undeveloped, a self not recognized.

The truth about nature we discover with our brains. The truth about religion we discover with our hearts.

The state of man is inconstancy, ennui, anxiety.

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.