Justice without wisdom is impossible.

There is always a part of our being into which those who are dearer to us far than our own lives are yet unable to enter.

Nature is not a partisan, but out of her ample treasue house she produces children in infinite variety, of which she is equally the mother, and disowns none of them.

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.

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.

Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; [but] a creed is always sensitive.

Where nature is sovereign, there is no need of austerity and self-denial.