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

The strictest law often causes the most serious wrong.

There are some duties we owe even to those who have wronged us. There is, after all, a limit to retribution and punishment.

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, …