"For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations, and to the next ages."

"It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire, and many things to fear."

"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 root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, and not when it misses."

"For whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap."