For as the law is set over the magistrate, even so are the magistrates set over the people. And therefore, it may be truly said, "that the magistrate is a speaking law, and the law is a silent magistrate.

The cultivation of the mind is a kind of food supplied for the soul of man.

Nature ordains that a man should wish the good of every man, whoever he may be, for this very reason that he is a man.

The contemplation of celestial things will make a man both speak and think more sublimely and magnificently when he descends to human affairs.

The judgment of posterity is truer, because it is free from envy and malevolence.

Dogs wait for us faithfully.

For no phase of life, whether public or private, whether in business or in the home, whether one is working on what concerns oneself alone or dealing with another, can be without its moral duty; on the discharge of such duties depends all that is morally right, and on their neglect all that is morally wrong in life.