I have learned to hold popular opinion of no value

It raises the question ... are we getting our money's worth? Are we capturing the full value of that significant investment?

Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old:It is the rust we value, not the gold.

decency.

Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things.

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased.