The conduct of a losing party never appears right: at least it never can possess the only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar judgements-success.
Men are as much blinded by the extremes of misery as by the extremes of prosperity.
A jealous lover lights his torch from the firebrand of the fiend.
Liberty, without wisdom, is license.
The true way to mourn the dead is to take care of the living who belong to them.
Nnothing tends more to the corruption of science than to suffer it to stagnate. These waters must be troubled, before they can exert their virtues.