We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.

Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.

No one is mediocre who has good sense and good sentiments.

In clothes clean and fresh there is a kind of youth with which age should surround itself.

It may be said that it is with our thoughts as with our flowers. Those whose expression is simple carry their seed with them; those that are double by their richness and pomp charm the mind, but produce nothing.

A man who shows no defect is a fool or a hypocrite, whom we should mistrust. There are defects so bound to fine qualities that they announce them,--defects which it is well not to correct.

Lenity is a part of justice; but she must not speak too loud for fear of waking justice.