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

Men think to mend their condition by a change of circumstances. They might as well hope to escape from their shadows.

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

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.

Justice without wisdom is impossible.

We must have the real thing before we can have a science of a thing.

Every one of us ... knows better than he practices, and recognizes a better law than he obeys.