Fortune, like a coy mistress, loves to yield her favors, though she makes us wrest them from her.

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.

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.

Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.

Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts.

Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.