Men are least safe from what success induces them not to fear.

It is better that a guilty man should not be brought to trial than that he should be acquitted.

No wickedness proceeds on any grounds of reason.

Events of great consequence often spring from trifling circumstances.

Law is a thing which is insensible, and inexorable, more beneficial and more profitious to the weak than to the strong; it admits of no mitigation nor pardon, once you have overstepped its limits.

Under the influence of fear, which always leads men to take a pessimistic view of things, they magnified their enemies' resources, and minimized their own.

Truth, they say, is but too often in difficulties, but is never finally suppressed.