Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.

Pride is like the beautiful acacia, that lifts its head proudly above its neighbor plants-forgetting that it too, like them, has its roots in the dirt.

He that shrinks from the grave with too great a dread, has an invisible fear behind him pushing him into it.

A better principle than this, that "the majority shall rule," is this other, that justice shall rule. "Justice," says the code of Justinian, "is the constant and perpetual desire to render every man his due.

Next to being witty, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit.

Motives are better than actions. Men drift into crime. Of evil they do more than they contemplate, and of good they contemplate more than they do.

The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.