Our judgment will always suspect those weapons that can be used with equal prospect of success on both sides.

Study with desire is real activity; without desire it is but the semblance and mockery of activity.

Justice is the sum of all moral duty.

Power is not happiness. Security and peace are more to be desired than a name at which nations tremble.

Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much.

The great model of the affection of love in human beings is the sentiment which subsists between parents and children.

The subtleties of mathematics defecate the grossness of our apprehension, and supply the elements of a sounder and severer logic.