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.

What an ugly beast the ape, and how like us.

Nothing in oratory is more important than to win for the orator the favour of his hearer, and to have the latter so affected as to be swayed by something resembling an impulse of the spirit impetu quodam animi or emotion perturbatione, rather than by judgment or deliberation. For men decide far more problems by hate, or love, or lust, or rage, or sorrow, or joy, or hope, or fear, or illusion, or some other inward emotion aliqua permotione mentis, than by reality or authority, or any legal standard, or judicial precedent or statute.

The first duty of man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth.

The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.

A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.

The name of peace is sweet, the thing itself is most salutary.