The turn of a sentence has decided the fate of many a friendship, and, for aught that we know, the fate of many a kingdom.

The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law.

Priestly was the first (unless it was Becarria) who taught my lips to pronounce this sacred truth--that the greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.

As to the evil which results from censorship, it is impossible to measure it, because it is impossible to tell where it ends.

Prose is when all the lines except the last go on to the end. Poetry is when some of them fall short of it.

...the rarest of all human qualities is consistency.

Without publicity, no good is permanent; under the auspices of publicity, no evil can continue.