Jurisdiction is not given for the sake of the judge, but for that of the litigant.

Those who are clever in imagination are far more pleased with themselves than prudent men could reasonably be.

Cold words freeze people, and hot words scorch them, and bitter words make them bitter, and wrathful words make them wrathful. Kind words also produce their own image on men's souls; and a beautiful image it is. They smooth, and quiet, and comfort the hearer.

The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.

You see, if the height of the mercury [barometer] column is less on the top of a mountain than at the foot of it (as I have many reasons for believing, although everyone who has so far written about it is of the contrary opinion), it follows that the weight of the air must be the sole cause of the phenomenon, and not that abhorrence of a vacuum, since it is obvious that at the foot of the mountain there is more air to have weight than at the summit, and we cannot possibly say that the air at the foot of the mountain has a greater aversion to empty space than at the top.

Plurality which is not reduced to unity is confusion; unity which does not depend on plurality is tyranny.

Jurisdiction is not given for the sake of the judge, but for that of the litigant.