When you assemble a number of men to have the advantage of their joint wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those men all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion, their local interests and their selfish views.

Vicious actions are not hurtful because they are forbidden, but forbidden because they are hurtful.

Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.

He's a fool who cannot conceal his wisdom.

Let each new year find you a better person.

God will certainly reward virtue and punish vice, either here or hereafter.

To err is human, to repent divine; to persist devilish.