"Truth is a naked and open daylight, that doth not show the masques and mummeries and triumphs of the world half so stately and daintily as candle-lights."

"God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures."

"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."

"The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men."

"And it is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tossed upon the sea."