Favours out of place I regard as positive injuries.

Religion is not removed by removing superstition.

Even while Jerusalem was standing and the Jews were at peace with us, the practice of their sacred rites was at variance with the glory of our empire, the dignity of our name, the customs of our ancestors.

Rashness attends youth, as prudence does old age.

To know the laws is not to memorize their letter but to grasp their full force and meaning.

For what people have always sought is equality before the law. For rights that were not open to all alike would be no rights.

A careful physician . . . before he attempts to administer a remedy to his patient, must investigate not only the malady of the man he wishes to cure, but also his habits when in health, and his physical constitution.