Conscience is the pulse of reason

Never yet did there exist a full faith in the Divine Word (by whom light as well as immortality was brought into the world) which did not expand the intellect, while it purified the heart--which did not multiply the aims and objects of the understanding, while it fixed and simplified those of the desires and passions.

A people are free in proportion as they form their own opinions.

There are three classes into which all the women past seventy that ever I knew were to be divided: 1. That dear old soul; 2. That old woman; 3. That old witch.

In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.

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

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.