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.
History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
The only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar minds - success.
To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.
It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.
Nnothing tends more to the corruption of science than to suffer it to stagnate. These waters must be troubled, before they can exert their virtues.