Dependence is a perpetual call upon humanity, and a greater incitement to tenderness and pity than any other motive whatever.

He only is a great man who can neglect the applause of the multitude and enjoy himself independent of its favor.

Men who cherish for women the highest respect are seldom popular with them.

Title and ancestry render a good man more illustrious, but an ill one more contemptible.

Blesses his stars and thinks it luxury.

I always rejoice when I see a tribunal filled with a man of an upright and inflexible temper, who in the execution of his country's laws can overcome all private fear, resentment, solicitation, and even pity it self. Whatever passion enters into a sentence or decision, so far will there be in it a tincture of injustice. In short, justice discards party, friendship, kindred, and is therefore always represented as blind, that we may suppose her thoughts are wholly intent on the equity of a cause, without being diverted or prejudiced by objects foreign to it.

I consider time as an in immense ocean, in which many noble authors are entirely swallowed up.