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.

But the world was also so constructed, owing to the nature of the Maker of it, that superior strength was found in the long run to lie with those who had the right on their side.

Courage is, on all hands, considered as an essential of high character.

Beautiful is old age—beautiful as the slow-dropping mellow autumn of a rich glorious summer. In the old man, Nature has fulfilled her work; she loads him with blessings; she fills him with the fruits of a well-spent life; and, surrounded by his children and his children's children, she rocks him softly away to a grave, to which he is followed with blessings. God forbid we should not call it beautiful.

Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve.

Justice without wisdom is impossible.

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