Eminent station makes great men more great, and little ones less.

The State not seldom tolerates a comparatively great evil to keep out millions of lesser ills and inconveniences which otherwise would be inevitable and without remedy.

A guilty man is punished as an example for the mob; an innocent man convicted is the business of every honest citizen.

Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.

The finest pleasure is kindness to others.

When we are young we lay up for old age; when we are old we save for death.

Children are contemptuous, haughty, irritable, envious, sneaky, selfish, lazy, flighty, timid, liars and hypocrites, quick to laugh and cry, extreme in expressing joy and sorrow, especially about trifles, they'll do anything to avoid pain but they enjoy inflicting it: little men already.