Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.

A good parson once said that where mystery begins religion ends. Cannot I say, as truly at least, of human laws, that where mystery begins justice ends?

Nothing, indeed, but the possession of some power can with any certainty discover what at the bottom is the true character of any man.

Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found.

Society is indeed a contract. Subordinate contracts for objects of mere occasional interest may be dissolved at pleasure - but the state ought not to be considered as nothing better than a partnership agreement in a trade of pepper and coffee, calico, or tobacco, or some other such low concern, to be taken up for a little temporary interest, and to be dissolved by the fancy of the parties. It is to be looked on with other reverence, because it is not a partnership in things subservient only to the gross animal existence of a temporary and perishable nature.

An appearance of delicacy, and even fragility, is almost essential to beauty.

Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.