All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.

Any man may make a mistake; none but a fool will stick to it. Second thoughts are best as the proverb says.

People do not understand what a great revenue economy is.

True law is right reason in agreement with nature;...it summons to duty by its commands, and averts from wrongdoing by its prohibitions... It is a sin to try to alter this law, nor is it allowable to attempt to repeal any part of it, and it is impossible to abolish it entirely.

I prefer the wisdom of the uneducated to the folly of the loquacious.

Life is short, but art lives forever.