For knowledge itself is power.
God almighty first planted a garden: and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasure.
Acorns were good until bread was found.
Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man’s nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.
Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.
I would live to study, and not study to live.
Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosperity does best discover vice, but adversity does best discover virtue.
Already know you that which you need.
The most difficult We do not deal in facts when we are contemplating ourselves.
If government knew how, I should like to see it check, not multiply, the population. When it reaches its true law of action, every man that is born will be hailed as essential.
I don’t do quagmires.
If a better system is thine, impart it; if not, make use of mine.
As soon as there is life there is danger.
There are charms made only for distance admiration.
The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies all his qualifications, but who throws himself on your part so heartily, that he can get you out of a scrape.
There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.
Fidelity is the sister of justice.
No crime is so great as daring to excel.
I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
Liberty without obedience is confusion, and obedience without liberty is slavery.
Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.
A man thinks as well through his legs and arms as this brain.
