Laws should be interpreted in a liberal sense so that their intention may be preserved.

Not to know what happened before means to remain forever a child.

To stumble twice against the same stone, is a proverbsial disgrace.

For many wish not so much to be, as to seem to be, endowed with real virtue.

Great is the power, great is the authority of a senate that is unanimous in its opinions.

All men have a feeling, that they would rather you told them a civil lie than give them a point blank refusal.... If you make a promise, the thing is still uncertain, depends on a future day, and concerns but few people; but if you refuse you alienate people to a certainty and at once, and many people too.

To those who are engaged in commercial dealings, justice is indispensable for the conduct of business.