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

I hate all children of precocious talent.

No well-informed person has declared a change of opinion to be inconstancy.

Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.

An agreement of rash men (a conspiracy).

When trying a case [the famous judge] L. Cassius never failed to inquire "Who gained by it?" Man's character is such that no one undertakes crimes without hope of gain.

The happiest end of life is this: when the mind and the other senses being unimpaired, the same nature which put it together takes asunder her own work.