The paternal and filial duties discipline the heart, and prepare it for the love of all mankind. The intensity of private attachment encourages, not prevents, universal benevolence.

A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation; but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind.

As long as we have to administer the law we must do so according to the law as it is. We are not here to make the law.

A Gothic church is a petrified religion.

A man's desire is for the woman, but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.

What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.

If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.