It would be doing cunning too much honor to call it an inferior species of true discernment.

The mind's eye is perhaps no better fitted for the full radiance of truth, than is the body's for that of the sun.

If nature did not take delight in blood, She would have made more easy ways to good.

It is so much in the nature of men to overreach and deceive one another, that their very sports and plays are founded on that principle.

We are not slow at discovering the selfishness of others; for this plain reason--because it clashes with our own.

Love will sacrifice more to others than friendship, but then it exacts more from them.

Man is said to be a rational creature; but should it not rather be said, that man is a creature capable of being rational, as we say a parrot is a creature capable of speech?