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

We enter the world alone, we leave it alone.

Justice without wisdom is impossible.

True greatness is the most ready to recognize and most willing to obey those simple outward laws which have been sanctioned by the experience of mankind.

Our human laws are but the copies, more or less imperfect, of the eternal laws, so far as we can read them.

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

Nature is less partial than she appears, and all situations in life have their compensations along with them.