True humility-the basis of the Christian system-is the low but deep and firm foundation of all virtues.

Magnificence is likewise a source of the sublime. A great profusion of things which are splendid or valuable in themselves is magnificent. The starry heaven, though it occurs so very frequently to our view, never fails to excite an idea of grandeur.

A good parson once said that where mystery begins religion ends. Cannot I say, as truly at least, of human laws, that where mystery begins justice ends?

Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found.

The question is not whether you have a right to render people miserable, but whether it is not in your best interest to make them happy.

Liberty, without wisdom, is license.

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.