Whether it enjoins or forbids, the good respect its injunctions, and the wicked treat them with indifference.

This law cannot be contradicted by any other law, and is not liable either to derogation or abrogation.

Neither the senate nor the people can give us any dispensation for not obeying this universal law of justice.

It needs no other expositor and interpreter than our own conscience.

It is not one thing at Rome, and another at Athens; one thing to-day, and another to-morrow; but in all times and nations this universal law must forever reign, eternal and imperishable.