"It is a general error, to imagine the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare."

"They who are in love with an opinion, rather than with the truth, will never be cured of their error."

"He who calls in the aid of an equal understanding, doubles his own; he who profits of a superior understanding, raises his powers to a level with the height of the superior understanding which he uses…"

"People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws."

"Applaud us when we run, console us when we fall, cheer us when we recover."