The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education.

A woman is easily governed, if a man takes her in hand.

From time to time there appear on the face of the earth men of rare and consummate excellence, who dazzle us by their virtue, and whose outstanding qualities shed a stupendous light. Like those extraordinary stars of whose origins we are ignorant, and of whose fate, once they have vanished, we know even less, such men have neither forebears nor descendants: they are the whole of their race.

A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably.

The spendthrift robs his heirs the miser robs himself.

Cheats easily believe others as bad as themselves; there is no deceiving them, nor do they long deceive.

The duty of a judge is to administer justice, but his practice is to delay it