Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us.

The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public.

Few men survey themselves with so much severity as not to admit prejudices in their own favor.

Every man prefers virtue, when there is not some strong incitement to transgress its precepts.

Truth has no gradations; nothing which admits of increase can be so much what it is, as truth is truth. There may be a strange thing, and a thing more strange. But if a proposition be true, there can be none more true.

Nothing has tended more to retard the advancement of science than the disposition in vulgar minds to vilify what they cannot comprehend.

A blaze first pleases and then tires the sight.