Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.

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

Tyranny and anarchy are never far apart.

What is it that should trace the insuperable line? ...The question is not, Can they reason? nor Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?

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

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.

There is no pestilence in a state like a zeal for religion, independent of morality.