Those have a short Lent who owe money to be paid at Easter.

Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.

History will also give occasion to expatiate on the advantage of civil orders and constitutions; how men and their properties are protected by joining in societies and establishing government; their industry encouraged and rewarded, arts invented, and life made more comfortable; the advantages of liberty, mischiefs of licentiousness, benefits arising from good laws and a due execution of justice. Thus may the first principles of sound politics be fixed in the minds of youth.

Those who give up liberty for the sake of security, deserve neither liberty nor security.

You may give give a man office, but you cannot give him discretion

God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.

A man is sometimes more generous when he has but a little money than when he has plenty, perhaps through fear of being thought to have but little.