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.

The spirit is the true self. The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure.

All action is of the mind and the mirror of the mind is the face, its index the eyes.

When I consider the wonderful activity of the mind, so great a memory of what is past, and such a capacity of penetrating into the future: when I behold such a number of arts and sciences, and such a multitude of discoveries hence arising,--I believe and am firmly persuaded that a nature which contains so many things within itself cannot be mortal.

Men, in whatever anxiety they may be, if they are men, sometimes indulge in relaxation.

This excessive licence, which the anarchists think is the only true freedom, provides the stock, as it were, from which a tyrant grows.

The human mind ever longs for occupation.