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

For what people have always sought is equality before the law. For rights that were not open to all alike would be no rights.

There is not a moment without some duty.

Prudence in action avails more than wisdom in conception.

I look upon the pleasure we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life.

It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

There is in superstition a senseless fear of God; religion consists in the pious worship of Him.