I was very strenuous for retaining and insisting on it [law of nature], as a resource to which we might be driven by Parliament much sooner than we were aware.

Modesty is a virtue that can never thrive in public.

Let justice be done though the heavens should fall.

Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.

Human passions unbridled by morality and religion...would break the stronges cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net.

I would define liberty to be a power to do as we would be done by. The definition of liberty to be the power of doing whatever the law permits, meaning the civil laws, does not seem satisfactory.

Whether they be old or young, rich or poor, high or low, wise or foolish, ignorant or learned, every individual is seen to be strongly actuated by a desire to be seen, heard, talked of, approved and respected... a passion for distinction.