Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.
In nature things move violently to their place, and calmly in their place.
All authority must be out of a man's self, turned . . . either upon an art, or upon a man.
Cleanness of body was ever deemed to proceed from a due reverence to God.
Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.