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

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.

Humanism or atheism is a wonderful philosophy of life as long as you are big, strong, and between the ages of eighteen and thirty-five. But watch out if you are in a lifeboat and there are others who are younger, bigger, or smarter.

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

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 positive law: Many things are bad by that, which otherwise were not.