Each man has an aptitude born with him. Do your work.

Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak.

We want a state of things in which crime will not pay, a state of things which allows every man the largest liberty compatible with the liberty of every other man.

Many of the historical proverbs have a doubtful paternity.

There are many faculties in man, each of which takes its turn of activity, and that faculty which is paramount in any period and exerts itself through the strongest nation, determines the civility of that age: and each age thinks its own the perfection of reason.

Genius, even, as it is the greatest good, is he greatest harm.

As gas-light is found to be the best nocturnal police, so the universe protects itself by pitiless publicity.