“Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.”

“Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.”

“People seldom improve when they have no model but themselves to copy after.”

“Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.”

“Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that the most swift are usually the least manageable and the most likely to stray from the course. Great abilities have always been less serviceable to the possessors than moderate ones.”

“I have known many of those pretended champions for liberty in my time, yet do I not remember one that was not in his heart and in his family a tyrant.”

“law grinds the poor, rich men rule the law”