Let all the laws be clear, uniform and precise for interpreting laws is almost always to corrupt them.

I read these words which are the sum of all moral philosophy, and which cut short all the disputes of the casuists: When in doubt if an action is good or bad, refrain.

Minds differ still more than faces.

Among the illusions which have invested our civilization is an absolute belief that the solutions to our problems must be a more determined application of rationally organized expertise... The reality is that our problems are largely the product of that application.

Fanaticism, to which men are so much inclined, has always served not only to render them more brutalized but more wicked.

I am a little deaf, a little blind, a little important and on top of this are two or three abominable infirmities, but nothing destroys my hope.

This is no time to be making new enemies.