The good judge is not he who does hair-splitting justice to every allegation, but who, aiming at substantial justice, rules something intelligible of the guidance of suitors.

Nature, as we know her, is no saint.... She comes eating and drinking and sinning.

The essence of age is intellect. Wherever that appears, we call it old.

Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.

The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem.

When he has seen, that it is not his, nor any man's, but it is the soul which made the world, and that it is all accessible to him, he will know that he, as its minister, may rightfully hold all things subordinate and answerable to it.

We denote this primary wisdom as Intuition, whilst all later teachings are tuitions.