We often repent of what we have said, but never, never, of that which we have not.

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

Truth will do well enough if left to shift for herself.

I have so much confidence in the good sense of man, and his qualifications for self-government, that I am never afraid of the issue where reason is left free to exert her force.

Courts love the people always, as wolves do the sheep.

Without health there is no happiness. An attention to health, then, should take the place of every other object.

Our ancestors ... were laborers, not lawyers.