Crimes Sometimes Shock Us Too Much; Vices

Only When The Voice Of Duty Is Silent, Or When It Has Already Spoken, May We Allowably Think Of The Consequences Of A Particular Action.

Since The Generality Of Persons Act From Impulse, Much More Than From Principle, Men Are Neither So Good Nor So Bad As We Are Apt To Think Them.

What A Person Praises Is Perhaps A Surer Standard, Even Than What He Condemns, Of His Own Character, Information And Abilities.

Many Are Ambitious Of Saying Grand Things, That Is, Of Being Grandiloquent.

The Question Is Not Whether A Doctrine Is Beautiful But Whether It Is True. When We Wish To Go To A Place, We Do Not Ask Whether The Road Leads Through A Pretty Country, But Whether It Is The Right Road.