Gaming is a kind of tacit confession that the company engaged therein do in general exceed the bounds of their respective fortunes, and therefore they cast lots to determine upon whom the ruin shall at present fall, that the rest may be saved a little longer.

The sciences are of a sociable disposition, and flourish best in the neighborhood of each other; nor is there any branch of learning but may be helped and improved by assistance drawn from other arts.

The public good is in nothing more essentially interested, than in the protection of every individual's private rights.

Herein indeed consists the excellence of the English government, that all parts of it form a mutual check upon each other.

It is better that ten guilty persons escape than one innocent suffer.

Punishments of unreasonable severity, especially where indiscriminately afflicted, have less effect in preventing crimes, and amending the manners of a people, than such as are more merciful in general, yet properly intermixed with due distinctions of severity.

No enactment of man can be considered law unless it conforms to the law of God