An act against my will is not my act.
Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt.
The wise are instructed by reason; ordinary minds by experience; the stupid, by necessity; and brutes by instinct.
He is not deemed to give consent who is under a mistake.
Human nature constitutes a part of the evidence in every case.
Be mild with the mild, shrewd with the crafty, confiding to the honest, rough to the ruffian, and a thunderbolt to the liar. But in all this, never be unmindful of your own dignity.
There was never anything by the wit of man so well devised, or so sure established, which in continuance of time hath not been corrupted.
One man may hit the mark, another blunder; but heed not these distinctions. Only from the alliance of the one, working with and through the other, are great things born.