A maxim in law has more weight in the world than an article of faith.

Patience alleviates, as impatience augments, pain; thus persons of strong will suffer less than those who give way to irritation.

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.

If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.

Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.

God hath intended our passions to prevail over reason.

When dunces are satiric, I take it for a panegyric.