A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.

Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

The public business must be carried on with a certain motion, neither too quick nor too slow.

Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.

In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.

There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.

Very good laws may be ill timed.