Even a man's exact imitation of the song of the nightingale displeases us when we discover that it is a mimicry, and not the nightingale.

Standing armies shall in time be totally abolished.

Religion is too important a matter to its devotees to be a subject of ridicule. If they indulge in absurdities, they are to be pitied rather than ridiculed.

Imagination is a powerful agent for creating, as it were, a second nature out of the material supplied to it by actual nature.

A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose.

Prudence reproaches; conscience accuses.

In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.