"The power of the legislative, being derived from the people by a positive voluntary grant and institution, can be no other than what that positive grant conveyed."

"To be happy, then, is to have a sound mind in a sound body, and to be well provided with the necessaries of life."

"The greatest part of our knowledge is founded on observation and experience."

"Our business here is not to know all things, but those which concern our conduct."

"The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom."