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

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

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

Possession is nine-tenths of the law.

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

A dose of poison can do its work but once. A bad book can go on poisoning minds for generations.

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