He Warns The Heads Of Parties Against

King Is A Title Which Translated Into Several Languages, Signifies A Magistrate With As Many Different Degrees Of Power As There Are Kingdoms In The World, And He Can Have No Power But What Is Given Him By Law; Yea, Even The Supreme Or Legislative Power Is Bound By The Rules Of Equity, To Govern By Laws Enacted, And Published In Due Form; For What Is Not Legal Is Arbitrary.

When I Became Thoroughly Acquainted With The Greek And Roman Authors, I Thought It Incumbent Upon Me To Do Something Towards The Honor Of The Place Of My Nativity, And To Vindicate The Rhetoric Of This Ancient Forum Of Our Metropolis From The Aspersions Of The Illiterate By Composing A Treatise Of The Alercation Of The Ancients; Wherein I Have Demonstrated That The Purity, Sincerity, And Simplicity Of Their Diction Is Nowhere So Well Preserved As Amongst My Neighbourhood.

Never Contradict. Never Explain. Never Apologize. (those Are The Secrets Of A Happy Life!)

He Warns The Heads Of Parties Against Believing Their Own Lies.

Almighty Power, By Whose Most Wise Command, Helpless, Forlorn, Uncertain, Here I Stand, Take This Faint Glimmer Of Thyself Away, Or Break Into My Soul With Perfect Day!