Those physical difficulties which you cannot account for, be very slow to arraign; for he that would be wiser than Nature would be wiser than God.

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

Publicity is the very soul of justice. It is the keenest spur to exertion, and the surest of all guards against improbity.

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

It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual

The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

The age we live in is a busy age; in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection.