The grand instructor, time.

Education is the cheap defense of nations.

The blood of man should never be shed but to redeem the blood of man. It is well shed for our family, for our friends, for our God, for our country, for our kind. The rest is vanity; the rest is crime.

Pleasure of every kind quickly satisfies.

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

I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.

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.