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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.