Let the punishment be proportionate to the offense.

The authors who affect contempt for a name in the world put their names to the books which they invite the world to read.

It is a strong proof of men knowing most things before birth, that when mere children they grasp innumerable facts with such speed as to show that they are not then taking them in for the first time, but are remembering and recalling them.

There is no moment without some duty.

Here is a man whose life and actions the world has already condemned - yet whose enormous fortune...has already brought him acquittal!

The house should derive dignity from the master, not the master from the house.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.