Fully to understand a grand and beautiful thought requires, perhaps, as much time as to conceive it.
Justice is the right of the weakest.
What a man knows only through feeling can be explained only through enthusiasm.
Truth consists of having the same idea about something that God has.
Grief - Happiness is to feel that one's soul is good; there is no other, in truth, and this kind of happiness may exist even in sorrow, so that there are griefs perfable to every joy, and such as would be preferred by all those who have felt them.
Lenity is a part of justice; but she must not speak too loud for fear of waking justice.