Delay in justice is injustice.

Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce.

We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.

Great men too often have greater faults than little men can find room for.

There is a gravity which is not austere nor captious, which belongs not to melancholy nor dwells in contraction of heart: but arises from tenderness and hangs upon reflection.

No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner.

We talk on principal, but act on motivation.