Fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren.
Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.
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.
My vigour relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty.
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate.