Delay in justice is injustice.

As the pearl ripens in the obscurity of its shell, so ripens in the tomb all the fame that is truly precious.

A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.

Modesty and diffidence make a man unfit for public affairs; they also make him unfit for brothels.

Was genius ever ungrateful? Mere talents are dry leaves, tossed up and down by gusts of passion, and scattered and swept away; but, Genius lies on the bosom of Memory, and Gratitude at her feet.

Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.

Principles do not mainly influence even the principled; we talk on principle, but we act on interest.