Justice is indispensably and universally necessary, and what is necessary must always be limited, uniform, and distinct

If what appears little be universally despised, nothing greater can be attained; for all that is great was at first little, and rose to its present bulk by gradual accessions and accumulated labours

The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public

Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.

To embarrass justice by a multiplicity of laws, or to hazard it by confidence in judges, are the opposite rocks on which all civil institutions have been wrecked, and between which legislative wisdom has never yet found an open passage

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking