The greatest and most amiable privilege which the rich enjoy over the poor is that which they exercise the least--the privilege of making others happy.

In civil jurisprudence it too often happens that there is so much law, that there is no room for justice, and that the claimant expires of wrong in the midst of right, as mariners die of thirst in the midst of water.

He that studies books alone, will know how things ought to be; and he that studies men, will know how things are.

That which we acquire with the most difficulty we retain the longest; as those who have earned a fortune are usually more careful of it than those who have inherited one.

Our actions must clothe us with an immortality loathsome or glorious.

All adverse and depressing influences can be overcome, not by fighting, by by rising above them.

Villainy that is vigilant will be an overmatch for virtue, if she slumber at her post.