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

Justice without wisdom is impossible.

What is called virtue in the common sense of the word has nothing to do with this or that man's prosperity, or even happiness.

Morality, when vigorously alive, sees farther than intellect, and provides unconsciously for intellectual difficulties.

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.

There are epidemics of nobleness as well as epidemics of disease.

Human improvement is from within outward.