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

It is the modest, not the presumptuous, inquirer who makes a real and safe progress in the discovery of divine truths. One follows Nature and Nature's God; that is, he follows God in his works and in his word.

Our liberty cannot be taken away unless the people are themselves accomplices.

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.

History is philosophy teaching by example and also by warning.

There is so much trouble in coming into the world, and so much more, as well as meanness, in going out of it, that it is hardly worth while to be here at all.

Worry is the only insupportable misfortune of life.