"There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion."

"For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations, and to the next ages."

"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…"

"The corruption of the best things is the worst."

"The greatest trust between man and man is the trust of giving counsel."