For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.

Judges ought to be more learned, than witty, more reverend, than plausible, and more advised, than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.

Aristotle... a mere bond-servant to his logic, thereby rendering it contentious and well nigh useless.

They that reverence to much old times are but a scorn to the new.

All the crimes on earth do not destroy so many of the human race nor alienate so much property as drunkenness.

But I account the use that a man should seek of the publishing of his own writings before his death, to be but an untimely anticipation of that which is proper to follow a man, and not to go along with him.

Suspicion amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they never fly by twilight.