The Laws Of Conscience, Though We Ascribe

Laws Gain Their Authority From Actual Possession And Custom: It Is Perilous To Go Back To Their Origins; Laws, Like Our Rivers, Get Greater And Nobler As They Roll Along: Follow Them Back Upstream To Their Sources And All You Find Is A Tiny Spring, Hardly Recognizable; As Time Goes By It Swells With Pride And Grows In Strength.

Fie On The Eloquence That Leaves Us Craving Itself, Not Things!

Certainly, If He Still Has Himself, A Man Of Understanding Has Lost Nothing.

After Mature Deliberation Of Counsel, The Good Queen To Establish A Rule And Immutable Example Unto All Posterity, For The Moderation And Required Modesty In A Lawful Marriage, Ordained The Number Of Six Times A Day As A Lawful, Necessary And Competent Limit.

A Little Of Everything And Nothing Thoroughly, After The French Fashion.