Every great example of punishment has in it some injustice, but the suffering individual is compensated by the public good.

All those things that are now field to be of the greatest antiquity were at one time new; what we to-day hold up by example will rank hereafter as precedent.

Style, like the human body, is specially beautiful when, so to say, the veins are not prominent, and the bones cannot be counted, but when a healthy and sound blood fills the limbs, and shows itself in the muscles, and the very sinews become beautiful under a ruddy glow and graceful outline.

Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.

Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

It is of eloquence as of a flame; it requires matter to feed it, and motion to excite it; and it brightens as it burns.

Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.