It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.

Hope is the best part of our riches.

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.

Even when we fancy we have grown wiser, it is only, it may be, that new prejudices have displaced old ones.

As many suffer from too much as too little.

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

Justice, not the majority, should rule.