God's law is 'right reason.' When perfectly understood it is called 'wisdom.' When applied by government in regulating human relations it is called 'justice.

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

When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's [children's] minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.

People do not understand what a great revenue economy is.

The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.

He who has once deviated from the truth, usually commits perjury with as little scruple as he would tell a lie.

Crimes are not to be measured by the issue of events, but by the bad intentions of men.