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.

Life is a search after power; and this is an element with which the world is so saturated,-there is no chink or crevice in which it is not lodged,-that no honest seeking goes unrewarded.

Success goes thus invariably with a certain plus or positive power: an ounce of power must balance an ounce of weight.

Astrology is astronomy brought down to Earth and applied toward the affairs of men.

The genius of the Platonists, is intoxicating to the student, yet how few particulars of it can I detach from all their books.

Society is a hospital of incurables.

The ship of heaven guides itself and will not accept a wooden rudder.