Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.

Virtue and decency are so nearly related that it is difficult to separate them from each other but in our imagination.

Saving the virtues includes all other advantages

Nothing is so swift as calumny, nothing is more easily propagated, nothing more readily credited, nothing more widely circulated.

The strictest law often causes the most serious wrong

Nothing so cements and holds together all the parts of a society as faith or credit, which can never be kept up unless men are under some force or necessity of honestly paying what they owe to one another.

While the sick man has life, there is hope.