"Law never made men a whit more just; and by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made the agents of injustice."

"I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion."

"We are wont to imagine that it would be a pleasant pastime to be a potato and grow in the dark, but it is not so."

"Wealth is the ability to fully experience life."

"The government is best which governs not at all."