The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great.

In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind.

Wise men will apply their remedies to vices, not to names; to the causes of evil which are permanent, not the occasional organs by which they act, and the transitory modes in which they appear.

Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions than ruined by too confident a security.

Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.

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.

Spain: A whale stranded upon the coast of Europe.