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"The cold neutrality of an impartial judge."
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"Four things belong to a judge: to hear courteously to answer wisely to consider soberly and to decide impartially."

"The police frequently do not enforce the rule of law."

"If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers."
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"An ignorant man, who is not fool enough to meddle with his clock, is however sufficiently confident to think he can safely take to pieces, and put together at his pleasure, a moral machine of another guise, importance and complexity, composed of far other wheels, and springs, and balances, and counteracting and co-operating powers. Men little think how immorally they act in rashly meddling with what they do not understand. Their delusive good intention is no sort of excuse for their presumption. They who truly mean well must be fearful of acting ill."

"But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint."

"Nobody makes a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little."
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