Those who seek for something more than happiness in this world must not complain if happiness is not their portion.

A single seed of fact will produce in a season or two a harvest of calumnies; but sensible men will pay no attention to them.

Justice without wisdom is impossible.

No person is ever good for much, that hasn't been swept off their feet by enthusiasm between ages twenty and thirty

If you think you can temper yourself into manliness by sitting here over your books, it is the very silliest fancy that ever tempted a young man to his ruin. You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

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

To tell men that they cannot help themselves is to fling them into recklessness and despair.