Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.

Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.

No liberal man would impute a charge of unsteadiness to another for having changed his opinion.

Law stands mute in the midst of arms.

To live long it is necessary to live slowly.

It might be pardonable to refuse to defend some men, but to defend them negligently is nothing short of criminal.

The spirit is the true self.