A seashell should be the crest of England, not only because it represents a power built on the waves, but also the hard finish ofthe men. The Englishman is finished like a cowry or a murex.

No one has a prosperity so high and firm that two or three words can't dishearten it.

Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite without any wish to act.

The superstition respecting power and office is going to the ground. The stream of human affairs flows its own way, and is very little affected by the activity of legislators. What great masses of men wish done, will be done; and they do not wish it for a freak, but because it is their state and natural end.

If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own.

When it's dark enough men see stars.

The judge weighs the arguments and puts a brave face on the matter, and since there must be a decision, decides as he can, and hopes he has done justice and given satisfaction to the community