The lessons of their early youth regulated the conduct of their riper years.

What indeed is life, unless so far as it is enjoyed? It does not merit the name.

Man is the only creature we know, that, when the term of his natural life is ended, leaves the memory of himself behind him.

If there be such a thing as truth, it must infallibly be struck out by the collision of mind with mind.

Justice is the sum of all moral duty.

It is absurd to expect the inclinations and wishes of two human beings to coincide, through any long period of time. To oblige them to act and live together is to subject them to some inevitable potion of thwarting, bickering, and unhappiness.

One of the prerogatives by which man is eminently distinguished from all other living beings inhabiting this globe of earth, consists in the gift of reason.