Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.

Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired

No man of honor, as the word is usually understood, did ever pretend that his honor obliged him to be chaste or temperate, to pay his creditors, to be useful to his country, to do good to mankind, to endeavor to be wise or learned, to regard his word, his promise, or his oath.

When a man is made a spiritual peer he loses his surname; when a temporal, his Christian name.

Complaint is the largest tribute heaven receives and the sincerest part of our devotion.

When any one person or body of men seize into their hands the power in the last resort, there is properly no longer a government, but what Aristotle and his followers call the abuse and corruption of one.

Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.