Avarice And Luxury, Those Evils Which Have

There Is Nothing Man Will Not Attempt When Great Enterprises Hold Out The Promise Of Great Rewards.

Law Is A Thing Which Is Insensible, And Inexorable, More Beneficial And More Profitious To The Weak Than To The Strong; It Admits Of No Mitigation Nor Pardon, Once You Have Overstepped Its Limits.

The Study Of History Is The Best Medicine For A Sick Mind; For In History You Have A Record Of The Infinite Variety Of Human Experience Plainly Set Out For All To See; And In That Record You Can Find Yourself And Your Country Both Examples And Warnings; Fine Things To Take As Models, Base Things Rotten Through And Through, To Avoid.

Truth, They Say, Is But Too Often In Difficulties, But Is Never Finally Suppressed.

Those Ills Are Easiest To Bear With Which We Are Most Familiar.