The endurance of the inequalities of life by the poor is the marvel of human society.

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

Men are made by nature unequal. It is vain, therefore, to treat them as if they were equal.

We enter the world alone, we leave it alone.

Crime is not punished as an offense against God, but as prejudicial to society.

The secret of a person's nature lies in their religion and what they really believes about the world and their place in it.

The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.