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

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.

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

Possession is nine-tenths of the law.

True liberty can exist only when justice is equally administered to all

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.

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