Love's sweetest meanings are unspoken; the full heart knows no rhetoric of words.

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

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

Galileo called doubt the father of invention; it is certainly the pioneer.

Justice, not the majority, should rule.

It is only an error of judgment to make a mistake, but it argues an infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.

It is safer to quote what is written than what is spoken. What a man writes it is fair to presume he believes as a matter of general conviction, but it is not so with what he utters in the freedom of conversation. In that he may only express the feeling of the moment, and not his settled judgment, or matured opinion.