There is no positive law: Many things are bad by that, which otherwise were not.

I will not avoid doing what I think is right, though it should draw on me the whole artillery that falsehood and malice can invent, or the credulity a deluded population can swallow.

Uncertain justice by a verdict is much better than certain injustice.

The law protects nothing in that very respect, in which it is, at the same time, in the eye of the law, a crime.

I wish popularity, but it is that popularity which follows; not that which is run after. It is that popularity which, sooner or later, never fails to do justice to the pursuit of noble ends, by noble means.

An estimated value is a precarious measure of justice, compared with the specific thing.

Decide promptly, but never give any reasons for your decisions. Your decisions may be right, but your reasons are sure to be wrong.