Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.

According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another.

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.

To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.

There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.