"Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend."

"Judges ought to remember that their office is jus dicere, and not jus dare; to interpret law, and not to make law, or give law. Else will it be like the authority, claimed by the Church of Rome, which…"

"Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is."

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

"I have taken all knowledge to be my province."