As for the excellent little wretches who grow up in what they are taught, with never a scruple or a query, ... they signify nothing in the intellectual life of the race.

Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up.

The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience.

There is nothing earthly that lasts so well, as money. A man's learning dies with him, as does his virtues fade out of remembrance, but the dividends on the stocks he bequeaths to his children live and keep his memory green.

A person of genius should marry a person of character.

Our test of truth is a reference to either a present or imagined future majority in favour of our view.

Detached reflection cannot be demanded in the presence of an uplifted knife.