If a man cannot feel the power of God when he looks upon the stars, then I doubt whether he is capable of any feeling at all.

There is no thing which God cannot accomplish.

A man has no enemy worse than himself.

The strictest law often causes the most serious wrong

Let each man have according to his deserts.

I do not now so much as wish to have the Strength of Youth again that I wish'd in Youth for the Strength of an Ox or Elephant. For it is our Business only to make the best Use we can of the Powers granted us by Nature.

It is easy to distinguish between the joking that reflects good breeding and that which is coarse-the one, if aired at an apposite moment of mental relaxation, is becoming in the most serious of men, whereas the other is unworthy of any free person, if the content is indecent or the expression obscene.