The noblest service comes from nameless hands; and the best servant does his work unseen.

The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

The law is the witness and external deposit of our moral life. Its history is the history of the moral development of the race.

To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.

Detached reflection cannot be demanded in the presence of an uplifted knife.

The only condition of peace in this world is to have no ideas, or, at least not to express them.

There is nothing earthly that lasts so well, as money. A man's learning dies with him, as does his virtues fade out of remembrance, but the dividends on the stocks he bequeaths to his children live and keep his memory green.