Truth only smells sweet forever, and illusions, however innocent, are deadly as the canker worm.

Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.

Just laws are no restraint upon the freedom of the good, for the good man desires nothing which a just law will interfere with.

Ignorance is the dominion of absurdity.

The best that we can do for one another is to exchange our thoughts freely; and that, after all, is about all.

Justice without wisdom is impossible.

Of all the evil spirits abroad at this hour in the world, insincerity is the most dangerous.