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.

There is a German proverb which says that Take-it-Easy and Live-Long are brothers.

The past is the sepulchre of our dead emotions.

It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.

The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it. [a predisposition to notice the beautiful, in everything.]

Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.

Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.