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

Law should be like death, which spares no one.

Study has been for me the sovereign remedy against all the disappointments of life. I have never known any trouble that an hour's reading would not dissipate.

Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.

You have to study a great deal to know a little.

False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

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