"It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much"
"It might be pardonable to refuse to defend some men, but to defend them negligently is nothing short of criminal"
"Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth"
"Nature abhors annihilation"
"Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability"
"Justice is the set and constant purpose which gives every man his due"
"I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity"
"I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors"
"I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own"
"Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything"
"It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error"
"Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live"
"Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?"
"The good of the people is the greatest law"
"People do not understand what a great revenue economy is"
"The false is nothing but an imitation of the true"
"Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom"
"Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent"
"I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know"
"I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability"
"Honor is the reward of virtue"
"He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason"
"Freedom is a possession of inestimable value"
"Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law"
"For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends"
"Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable"
"Even if you have nothing to write, write and say so"
"Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty"
"It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness"
