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

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

Let justice be done, though the heavens fall.

Possession is nine-tenths of the law.

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

The air of England is too pure for a slave to breathe, and so everyone who breathes it becomes free. Everyone who comes to this island is entitled to the protection of English law, whatever oppression he may have suffered and whatever may be the colour of his skin.

I will not avoid doing what I think is right, though it should draw on me the whole artillery that falsehood and malice can invent, or the credulity a deluded population can swallow.