The finest pleasure is kindness to others.

There are but three events which concern man: birth, life and death. They are unconscious of their birth, they suffer when they die, and they neglect to live.

Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds - habits and novelty.

He who can wait for what he desires takes the course not to be exceedingly grieved if he fails of it; he, on the contrary, who labors after a thing too impatiently thinks the success when it comes is not a recompense equal to all the pains he has been at about it.

When we have run through all forms of government, without partiality to that we were born under, we are at a loss with which to side; they are all a compound of good and evil. It is therefore most reasonable and safe to value that of our own country above all others, and to submit to it.

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

Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth.