"A nice man is a man of nasty ideas."

"Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired."

"I have been for some years past, working upon a great work, which I intend to publish, and it is a complete refutation of all that hath ever been written upon the subject of government."

"No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel."

"It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever has been done before may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice a…"