Let justice be done, though the heavens fall.

Consider what you think justice requires, and decide accordingly. But never give your reasons; for your judgment will probably be right, but your reasons will certainly be wrong.

Decide promptly, but never give any reasons for your decisions. Your decisions may be right, but your reasons are sure to be wrong.

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

I will not avoid doing what I think is right, though it should draw on me the whole artillery that falsehood and malice can invent, or the credulity a deluded population can swallow.

An estimated value is a precarious measure of justice, compared with the specific thing.

Uncertain justice by a verdict is much better than certain injustice.

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

It is iniquitous, unjust, and most impolitic to persecute for religion's sake. It is against natural religion, revealed religion, and sound policy.

Possession is nine-tenths of the law.

Rules of property ought to be generally known, and not to be left upon loose notes, which rather serve to confound principles, than to confirm them.

To achieve all of your goals, focus on one goal at a time.

Always write as if you will never have the blessed chance to write again, so this has to be the best thing you've ever done. Do that, and it will be.

Liberty is too priceless to be forfeited through the zeal of an administrative agent.

There aren't many other labels who I can say are that successful, and can give me as much as 4AD gives me, and still have such a great roster.

Every day the choice is presented to us, to live up to the spirit that is in us, or deny it.

I believe that time wounds all heals. (karma)

Scoring three away from home - you can't do better than that.

The Romans used every housing form known today and they have a remarkably modern look.

The idea for a novel is like a little tiny fire in a dark night. And, one by one, the characters come and stand around it and warm their hands.

Another world is possible, without the 1 percent.