War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.

Self-denial is often the sacrifice of one sort of self-love for another.

There are prating coxcombs in the world who would rather talk than listen, although Shakespeare himself were the orator, and human nature the theme!

We should have a glorious conflagration, if all who cannot put fire into their works would only consent to put their works into the fire.

None are so seldom found alone, and are so soon tired of their own company, as those coxcombs who are on the best terms with themselves.

In civil jurisprudence it too often happens that there is so much law, that there is no room for justice, and that the claimant expires of wrong in the midst of right, as mariners die of thirst in the midst of water.

"Lawyers Are": The only civil delinquents whose judges must of necessity be chosen from (amongst) themselves.