Depend upon it, sir, it is when you come close to a man in conservation that you discover what his real abilities are; to make a speech in a public assembly is a knack.

In matters of business, no woman stops at integrity.

Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.

Read over your compositions and whenever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

To embarrass justice by multiplicity of laws, or to hazard it by confidence in judges, seem to be the opposite rocks on which all civil institutions have been wrecked, and between which legislative wisdom has never yet found an open passage.

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

Much is due to those who first broke the way to knowledge, and left only to their successors the task of smoothing it.