The light that a man receives by counsel from another is drier and purer than that which comes from his own understanding and judgment, which is ever infused and drenched in his affections and customs.

Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.

The world's a bubble, and the life of man, Less than a span.

Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.

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

Human knowledge and human power meet in one; for where the cause is not known the effect cannot be produced. Nature to be commanded must be obeyed; and that which in contemplation is as the cause is in operation as the rule.

Base and crafty cowards are like the arrow that flieth in the dark.