Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute.

Hatred is inveterate anger.

I have always been of the opinion that unpopularity earned by doing what is right is not unpopularity at all, but glory.

The first bond of society is marriage.

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself; you will never err if you listen to your own suggestions.

...the counsels of the Divine Mind had some glimpse of truth when they said that men are born in order to suffer the penalty for sins committed in a former life.

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