A dose of poison can do its work but once. A bad book can go on poisoning minds for generations.

God help the patient.

Uncertain justice by a verdict is much better than certain injustice.

Consider what you think justice requires, and decide accordingly. But never give your reasons; for your judgment will probably be right, but your reasons will certainly be wrong.

There is no positive law: Many things are bad by that, which otherwise were not.

I wish popularity, but it is that popularity which follows; not that which is run after. It is that popularity which, sooner or later, never fails to do justice to the pursuit of noble ends, by noble means.

True popularity is not the popularity which is followed after, but the popularity which follows after.