A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.

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

God help the patient.

A man wants no protection when his conduct is strictly right.

I will not do that which my conscience tells me is wrong to gain the huzzahs of thousands, or the daily praise of all the papers which come from the press; I will not avoid doing what I think is right, though it should draw on me the whole artillery.

Let justice be done, though the heavens fall.

It is needless to enter into many reasons for quashing the conviction, when one alone is sufficient.

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