It is not without good reason, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying.

Wise men have more to learn of fools than fools of wise men.

Necessity reconciles and brings men together; and this accidental connection afterward forms itself into laws.

Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness.

Whoever will imagine a perpetual confession of ignorance, a judgment without leaning or inclination, on any occasion whatever, hasa conception of Pyrrhonism.

Laws gain their authority from actual possession and custom: it is perilous to go back to their origins; laws, like our rivers, get greater and nobler as they roll along: follow them back upstream to their sources and all you find is a tiny spring, hardly recognizable; as time goes by it swells with pride and grows in strength.

A strong memory is commonly coupled with infirm judgment.