Economy is a distributive virtue, and consists not in saving but in selection.

An appearance of delicacy, and even fragility, is almost essential to beauty.

There is a time when the hoary head of inveterate abuse will neither draw reverence nor obtain protection.

Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.

I cannot help concurring with the opinion that an absolute democracy, no more than absolute monarchy, is to be reckoned among the legitimate forms of government.

All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.

There are cases in which a man would be ashamed not to have been imposed upon. There is a confidence necessary to human intercourse, and without which men are often more injured by their own suspicions than they would be by the perfidy of others.