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

When a government is arrived to that degree of corruption as to be incapable of reforming itself, it would not lose much by being new moulded.

Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one's wit at the expense of one's better nature.

Passion makes us feel, but never see clearly.

For a country, everything will be lost when the jobs of an economist and a banker become highly respected professions.

Very good laws may be ill timed.

There should be weeping at a man's birth, not at his death.