Judges ought above all to remember the conclusion of the Roman Twelve Tables :The supreme law of all is the weal [weatlh/ well-being] of the people.

If my people look as if they're in a dreadful fix, it's because I can't get them out of a technical dilemma.

Much bending breaks the bow; much unbending the mind.

Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.

To be free minded and cheerfully disposed at hours of meat and sleep and of exercise is one of the best precepts of long lasting.

The essential form of knowledge... is nothing but a representation of truth: for the truth of being and the truth of knowing are one, differing no more than the direct beam and the beam reflected.

Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.