Hope is the best part of our riches. What sufficeth it that we have the wealth of the Indies in our pockets, if we have not the hope of heaven in our souls?

Wine is a treacherous friend who you must always be on guard for.

The life even of a just man is a round of petty frauds; that of a knave a series of greater. We degrade life by our follies and vices, and then complain that the unhappiness which is only their accompaniment is inherent in the constitution of things.

It may almost be held that the hope of commercial gain has done nearly as much for the cause of truth as even the love of truth.

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

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.

Adhesion to one idea is monomania; to few, slavery.