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.

I own that there is a haughtiness and fierceness in human nature which will cause innumerable broils, place men in what situation you please.

The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.

What shadows we are, and what shadows we pursue!

Whenever government abandons law, it proclaims anarchy.

Flattery is no more than what raises in a man's mind an idea of a preference which he has not.

Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.