"Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man."

"Judges ought to remember that their office is jus dicere, and not jus dare; to interpret law, and not to make law, or give law. Else will it be like the authority, claimed by the Church of Rome, which…"

"The greatest objection to a monarch cannot be made without a paradox; for it is that he is too great to be good."

"The human mind is a mirror, but an uneven one, and it distorts the rays of things by its own nature."

"The contemplation of things as they are, without superstition or imposture, without error or confusion, is in itself a nobler thing than a whole harvest of invention."