I wish popularity, but it is that popularity which follows; not that which is run after. It is that popularity which, sooner or later, never fails to….

There is no entering into the secret thoughts of a man's heart..

A dose of poison can do its work but once. A bad book can go on poisoning minds for generations..

The expenses of the paperwork and court fees involved in pursuing the appeal through the courts were not too high. In fact, as I recall, removing pra….

Let justice be done, though the heavens fall..

The law protects nothing in that very respect, in which it is, at the same time, in the eye of the law, a crime..

True liberty can exist only when justice is equally administered to all.

The air of England is too pure for a slave to breathe, and so everyone who breathes it becomes free. Everyone who comes to this island is entitled to….

Decide promptly, but never give any reasons for your decisions. Your decisions may be right, but your reasons are sure to be wrong..

There is no positive law: Many things are bad by that, which otherwise were not..

God help the patient..

It is iniquitous, unjust, and most impolitic to persecute for religion's sake. It is against natural religion, revealed religion, and sound policy..

Consider what you think justice requires, and decide accordingly. But never give your reasons; for your judgment will probably be right, but your rea….

Humanism or atheism is a wonderful philosophy of life as long as you are big, strong, and between the ages of eighteen and thirty-five. But watch out….

I will not avoid doing what I think is right, though it should draw on me the whole artillery that falsehood and malice can invent, or the credulity ….

Uncertain justice by a verdict is much better than certain injustice..

Rules of property ought to be generally known, and not to be left upon loose notes, which rather serve to confound principles, than to confirm them..

An estimated value is a precarious measure of justice, compared with the specific thing..

Possession is nine-tenths of the law..

True popularity is not the popularity which is followed after, but the popularity which follows after..