Justice is but the distributing to everything according to the requirements of its nature.

There is nothing in words and styles out suitableness that makes them acceptable and effective.

Some pretences daunt and discourage us, while others raise us to a brisk assurance.

It may not be impossible, but that our Faculties may be so construed, as always to deceive us in the things we judge most certain and assured.

That though we are certain of many things, yet that Certainty is no absolute Infallibility, there still remains the possibility of our being mistaken in all matters of humane Belief and Inquiry.

And for mathematical science, he that doubts their certainty hath need of a dose of hellebore.

It is the great beauty of true religion that it shall be universal, and a departure in any instance from universality is a corruption of religion itself.

Man doth not yield him to the angels, nor unto death utterly, save only through the weakness of his feeble will.

The precipitancy of disputation, and the stir and noise of passions that usually attend it, must needs be prejudicial to verity.

The woman in us still prosecutes a deceit like that begun in the garden.

What's impossible to all humanity may be possible to the metaphysics and physiology of angels.

My poetry doesn't change from place to place - it changes with the years. It's very important to be one's age. You get ideas you have to turn down - 'I'm sorry no longer' 'I'm sorry not yet.'

Toil and risk are the price of glory, but it is a lovely thing to live with courage and die leaving an everlasting fame.

In the 1970s, Washington women lawyers were getting organized. Grouping together gave us courage. And we overcame.

So long as space remains So long as sentient beings' Suffering remains I will remain In order to help, In order to serve.

It is the Christmas time: And up and down 'twixt heaven and earth, In glorious grief and solemn mirth, The shining angels climb.

If we once, and for so long, lived in balance with nature and each other, we should be able to do so again.

If [Donald] Trump drags down a bunch of Senate Republicans, the post-election GOP assessment will be much more pessimistic.

The secret of making progress is to get started.

Where a new invention promises to be useful, it ought to be tried.

I got into moisturiser when I played football. If you're out in all weathers you have to take care of your face.