Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

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

Very good laws may be ill timed.

Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations arising from the nature of things. In this sense all beings have their laws: the Deity His laws, the material world its laws, the intelligences superior to man their laws, the beasts their laws, man his laws.

There is hardly any grief that an hour's reading will not dissipate.

I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.

When we seek after wit, we discover only foolishness.