Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.

Wars are just to those to whom they are necessary.

Education is a nation's cheapest defence

Thank God, men that art greatly guilty are never wise.

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.

Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.

Vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.