"Laws are made to guard the rights of the people, not to feed the lawyers. The laws should be read by all, known to all. Put them into shape, inform them with philosophy, reduce them in bulk, give them…"

"Money is a great servant but a bad master."

"Ambition is like a choler, which makes an ill digestion, but a good appetite."

"Certainly, wife and children are a kind of discipline of humanity."

"The human mind is a mirror, but an uneven one, and it distorts the rays of things by its own nature."