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

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

Europe is a state with several provinces

It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.

Those who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less men think, the more they talk.

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

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.