A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's.

It may be worth noticing as a curious circumstance, when persons past forty before they were at all acquainted form together a very close intimacy of friendship. For grafts of old wood to take, there must be a wonderful congeniality between the trees.

As an exercise of the reasoning faculties, pure mathematics is an admirable exercise, because it consists of reasoning alone and does not encumber the student with any exercise of judgment.

Every instance of a man's suffering the penalty of the law is an instance of the failure of that penalty in effecting its purpose, which is to deter.

All gaming, since it implies a desire to profit at the expense of another, involves a breach of the tenth commandment.

It is one thing to wish to have truth on our side, and another to wish sincerely to be on the side of truth.

Ethical maxims are bandied about as a sort of current coin of discourse, and, being never melted down for use, those that are of base metal are never detected.