"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…"

"A man's nature, runs either to herbs or weeds; therefore let him seasonably water the one, and destroy the other."

"Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark."

"The honest and straightforward course is, in the long run, the most profitable."

"Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not; but superstition dismounts all the…"