"The master of superstition is the people; and in all superstition wise men follow fools."

"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…"

"If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them."

"Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws."

"I have taken all knowledge to be my province."