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

It is iniquitous, unjust, and most impolitic to persecute for religion's sake. It is against natural religion, revealed religion, and sound policy.

There is no entering into the secret thoughts of a man's heart.

Let justice be done, though the heavens fall.

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

True popularity is not the popularity which is followed after, but the popularity which follows after.

Rules of property ought to be generally known, and not to be left upon loose notes, which rather serve to confound principles, than to confirm them.