Great minds must be ready not only to take opportunities, but to make them.

It is an easy and a vulgar thing to please the mob, and not a very arduous task to astonish them; but essentially to benefit and to improve them, is a work fraught with difficulty, and teeming with danger.

When the cruel fall into the hands of the cruel, we read their fate with horror, not with pity.

Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship never.

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock

To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.

The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.

And the progress of the mind in science; is not very unlike the progress of science herself in experiment.

But virtue is above the storm, and has an anchor sure and steadfast,because it is cast into heaven.

Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.