"Laws are made to guard the rights of the people, not to feed the lawyers. The laws should be read by all, known to all. Put them into shape, inform them with philosophy, reduce them in bulk, give them…"

"It is a thing that ever accompanies great parts, that those that have them are not soon satisfied."

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

"The most ordinary cause of a single life is liberty, especially in minds of some nobility."

"The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding."