Never Injure A Friend, Even In Jest.

Some Men Make A Womanish Complaint That It Is A Great Misfortune To Die Before Our Time. I Would Ask What Time? Is It That Of Nature? But She, Indeed, Has Lent Us Life, As We Do A Sum Of Money, Only No Certain Day Is Fixed For Payment. What Reason Then To Complain If She Demands It At Pleasure, Since It Was On This Condition That You Received It.

A Mind Without Instruction Can No More Bear Fruit Than Can A Field, However Fertile, Without Cultivation.

Sound Conviction Should Influence Us Rather Than Public Opinion.

It Is A Great Proof Of Talents To Be Able To Recall The Mind From The Senses, And To Separate Thought From Habit.

An Innocent Man, If Accused, Can Be Acquitted; A Guilty Man, Unless Accused, Cannot Be Condemned. It Is, However, More Advantageous To Absolve An Innocent Than Not To Prosecute A Guilty Man.