The strictest law often causes the most serious wrong.

The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, …

The wise are instructed by reason; ordinary minds by experience; the stupid, by necessity; and brutes by instinct.

The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the reput…