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.

Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.

Honesty is not only "the first step toward greatness," - it is greatness itself.

As many suffer from too much as too little.

The past is the sepulchre of our dead emotions.

The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.

All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.