Old religious factions are volcanoes burned out; on the lava and ashes and squalid scoriae of old eruptions grow the peaceful olive, the cheering vine and the sustaining corn.

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.

Custom reconciles us to everything.

Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.

The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.

Great men are the guideposts and landmarks in the state.

There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations.