"All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory they have no power over the substance of original justice."

"The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations."

"It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact."

"Beauty is the promise of happiness."

"I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours."

"Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness."

"He that hath knowledge spareth his words."

"It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought."