There is no possession more valuable than a good and faithful friend.

This is...self-knowled ge-for a man to know what he knows, and what he does not know.

A system of morality that is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception that has nothing sound in it and nothing true.

The nearest way to glory a shortcut, as it were is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be.

Since I am convinced that I wrong no one, I am not likely to wrong myself.

It is not the purpose of a juryman's office to give justice as a favor to whoever seems good to him, but to judge according to law, and this he has sworn to do.

I have lived long enough to learn how much there is I can really do without.... He is nearest to God who needs the fewest things.