There never was a bad man that had ability for good service.

Wars are just to those to whom they are necessary.

The more accurately we search into the human mind, the stronger traces we everywhere find of his wisdom who made it.

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver; and adulation is not of more service to the people than to kings.

Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.

It is the function of a judge not to make but to declare the law, according to the golden mete-wand of the law and not by the crooked cord of discretion.

Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.