Prudence is but experience, which equal time equally bestows on all men in those things they equally apply themselves unto.

The law is the public conscience.

A democracy is no more than an aristocracy of orators. The people are so readily moved by demagogues that control must be exercised by the government over speech and press.

The best men are the least suspicious of fraudulent purposes.

Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.

Scientia potentia est, sed parva; quia scientia egregia rara est, nec proinde apparens nisi paucissimis, et in paucis rebus. Scientiae enim ea natura est, ut esse intelligi non possit, nisi ab illis qui sunt scientia praediti.

All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called 'Facts'. They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.