"No man can be a good citizen who is not a good son, a good brother, a good husband, or a good father."

"Never was there a time in which I would have been more ashamed to have been a member of Parliament."

"The greatest crimes are not committed by 'hot and passionate' men, but by 'cold and deliberate' ones."

"The love of lucre, and not the love of liberty, is the motive of their conduct."

"It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do."