The whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other.

Imitation is the sincerest flattery.

Let those who would affect singularity with success first determine to be very virtuous, and they will be sure to be very singular.

I will not be revenged, and this I owe to my enemy; but I will remember, and this I owe to myself.

We ought not to be over-anxious to encourage innovation in cases of doubtful improvement, for an old system must ever have two advantages over a new one; it is established, and it is understood.

Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.

Nothing so completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straightforward and simple integrity in another.

The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal.

The worst thing that can be said of the most powerful is that they can take your life; but the same thing can be said of the most weak.

The science of legislation is like that of medicine in one respect: that it is far more easy to point out what will do harm than what will do good.