"If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel."

"When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him."

"Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen."

"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…"

"Argument is the worst of all instruments for the discovery of truth."