No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity.

Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.

Nothing is so rash as fear; and the counsels of pusillanimity very rarely put off, whilst they are always sure to aggravate, the evils from which they would fly.

The method of teaching which approaches most nearly to the method of investigation is incomparably the best.

Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them all.

Never, no never, did Nature say one thing, and wisdom another.

All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they may alter the mode and application, but have no power over the substance of original justice.