We look to Scotland for all our ideas of civilisation.

This is no time to make new enemies.

Now is not the time for making new enemies.

Exaggeration, the inseparable companion of greatness.

All the ancient histories, as one of our wits say, are just fables that have been agreed upon

Let all the laws be clear, uniform and precise for interpreting laws is almost always to corrupt them.

Self love is the instrument of our preservation.