Confidence is a plant of slow growth; especially in an aged bosom

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.

Almost all the moral good which is left among us is the apparent effect of physical evil.

Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.

He that teaches us anything which we knew not before is undoubtedly to be reverenced as a master.

Being reproached for giving to an unworthy person, Aristotle said, I did not give it to the man, but to humanity.

We may have many acquaintances, but we can have but few friends; this made Aristotle say that he that hath many friends hath none.