Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public.

It may be laid down as a position which seldom deceives, that when a man cannot bear his own company, there is something wrong.

When any fit of gloominess, or perversion of mind, lays hold upon you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaints, but exert your whole care to hide it; by endeavouring to hide it; you will dry it away. Be always busy.

Liberty is the parent of truth, but truth and decency are sometimes at variance. All men and all propositions are to be treated here as they deserve, and there are many who have no claim either to respect or decency.

If a man could say nothing against a character but what he can prove, history could not be written.

There is no being so poor and so contemptible, who does not think there is somebody still poorer, and still more contemptible.