Of all exercises, walking is the best.

I am myself an empiric in natural philosophy, suffering my faith to go no further than my facts. I am pleased, however, to see the efforts of hypothetical speculation, because by the collisions of different hypotheses, truth may be elicited and science advanced in the end.

One single object . . . [will merit] the endless gratitude of the society: that of restraining the judges from usurping legislation.

Laws abridging the natural right of the citizen should be restrained by rigorous constructions within their narrowest limits.

If I had to choose between government and a free press, I would choose a free press.

The love of justice and the love of country plead equally the cause of these people, and it is a moral reproach to us that they should have pleaded it so long in vain.

No stile of writing is so delightful as that which is all pith, which never omits a necessary word, nor uses an unnecessary one.