The lives of the best of us are spent in choosing between evils.

Integrity is praised and then left out in the cold.

Compassion to an offender who has grossly violated the laws is, in effect, a cruelty to the peaceable subject who has observed them.

The integrity of men is to be measured by their conduct, not by their professions.

There is a holy mistaken zeal in politics as well as religion. By persuading others, we convince ourselves.

I hold myself indebted to any one from whose enlightened understanding another ray of knowledge communicates to mine. Really to inform the mind is to correct and enlarge the heart.

It is the coward who fawns upon those above him. It is the coward who is insolent whenever he dares be so.