Love of reading enables a man to exchange the weary hours, which come to every one, for hours of delight.

At our coming into the world we contract an immense debt to our country, which we can never discharge.

Love of reading enables a man to exchange the weary hours, which come to every one, for hours of delight.

It is unreasonable ... to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life.

Sometimes a man who deserves to be looked upon because he is a fool is despised only because he is a lawyer.

Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.

The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.