The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.
True power and true politeness are above vanity.
The opinion of all lawyers, the unanimous cry of the nation, and the good of the state, are in themselves a law.
An infallible method of making fanatics is to persuade before you instruct.
We are obliged to place ourselves on the level of our age before we can rise above it.
It must be confessed that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men than the inventors of syllogisms.