Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.

Men think to mend their condition by a change of circumstances. They might as well hope to escape from their shadows.

A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.

Carelessness is inexcusable, and merits the inevitable sequence.

Crime is not punished as an offense against God, but as prejudicial to society.

The best that we can do for one another is to exchange our thoughts freely; and that, after all, is about all.

Just laws are no restraint upon the freedom of the good, for the good man desires nothing which a just law will interfere with.