The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.

There is no better way to exercise the imagination than the study of the law.

We rail at trade, but the historian of the world will see that it was the principle of liberty; that it settled America, and destroyed feudalism, and made peace and keeps peace; that it will abolish slavery.

For, rightly, every man is a channel through which heaven floweth, and, whilst I fancied I was criticising him, I was censuring orrather terminating my own soul.

A party is perpetually corrupted by personality.

The true doctrine of omnipresence is, that God reappears with all his parts in every moss and cobweb.