Is not a patron one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help?

To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.

Justice is indispensably and universally necessary, and what is necessary must always be limited, uniform, and distinct

A lawyer has no business with the justice or injustice of the cause which he undertakes, unless his client asks his opinion, and then he is bound to give it honestly. The justice or injustice of the cause is to be decided by the judge.

He is no wise man who will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.

He who would have fine guests, let him have a fine wife.

It seems not more reasonable to leave the right of printing unrestrained, because writers may be afterwards censured, than it would be to sleep with doors unbolted, because by our laws we can hang a thief.