In questions of law or of fact conscience is very often confounded with opinion. No man's conscience can tell him the rights of another man; they must be known by rational investigation or historical inquiry.

The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.

To be prejudiced is always to be weak

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.

The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.

Avarice is always poor.

The necessities of our condition require a thousand offices of tenderness, which mere regard for the species will never dictate.