If we lose affection and kindliness from our life: we lose all that gives it charm.

There is a difference between justice and consideration in one's relations to one's fellow men. It is the function of justice not to do wrong to one's fellow men of considerateness, not to wound their feelings.

If you would abolish covetousness, you must abolish its mother, profusion.

Death approaches, which is always impending like the stone over Tantalus: then comes superstition with which he who is imbued can never have peace of mind.

There is a certain virtue in every good man, which night and day stirs up the mind with the stimulus of glory, and reminds it that all mention of our name will not cease at the same time with our lives, but that our fame will endure to all posterity.

This is our special duty, that if anyone specially needs our help, we should give him such help to the utmost of our power.

Strict law is often great injustice.