Justice is the idea of God, the ideal of man, the rule of conduct writ in the nature of mankind.

It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a single thing; his manhood all taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure of excessive business.

I look through the grave into heaven.

The books which help you most are those which make you think the most. The hardest way of learning is by easy reading; every man that tries it finds it so. But a great book that comes from a great thinker, — it is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth, with beauty too.

Science, also, is most largely indebted to these beauty-loving Greeks, for truth is one form of loveliness.

You may not, cannot, appropriate beauty. It is the wealth of the eye, and a cat may gaze upon a king.

Democracy means not "I am as good as you are" but "You are as good as I am.".