They that have grown old in a single state are generally found to be morose, fretful and captious; tenacious of their own practices and maxims; soon offended by contradiction or negligence; and impatient of any association but with those that will watch their nod, and submit themselves to unlimited authority.

You cannot give me an instance of any man who is permitted to lay out his own time contriving not to have tedious hours.

The stream of Time, which is continually washing the dissoluble fabrics of other poets, passes without injury by the adamant of Shakespeare.

As to precedents, to be sure they will increase in course of time; but the more precedents there are, the less occasion is there for law; that is to say, the less occasion is there for investigating principles.

Of a thousand shavers, two do not shave so much alike as not to be distinguished.

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

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.