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.

Books are embalmed minds.

A genuine passion is like a mountain stream; it admits of no impediment; it cannot go backward; it must go forward.

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

Wit must be without effort. Wit is play, not work; a nimbleness of the fancy, not a laborious effort of the will; a license, a holiday, a carnival of thought and feeling, not a trifling with speech, a constraint upon language, a duress upon words.

The extent of poverty in the world is much exaggerated. Our sensitiveness makes half our poverty; our fears--anxieties for ills that never happen--a greater part of the other half.

The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.