The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.

I think it indisputable that the distance between the intellectual faculties of different men is greater than that between the same faculties in some men and some other animals.

Lawyers must pry into the recesses of the human heart, and become well acquainted with the whole moral world, that they may discover the abstract reason of all laws.

The fire of my adversity has purged the mass of my acquaintance.

The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.

What a world is this, and how does fortune banter us!

A long novitiate of acquaintance should precede the vows of friendship.