The pride of men will not often suffer reason to have scope until it can be no longer of service.

Prudence is a quality incompatible with vice, and can never be effectively enlisted in its cause.

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.

Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.

If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.

The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions.

Greater mischief happens often from folly, meanness, and vanity than from the greater sins of avarice and ambition.