Law Is A Bottomless Pit.

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!

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

It Is Surprising To See What Superficial, Inconsequential Reasonings Satisfy The Most Part Of Mankind. A Piece Of Wit, A Jest, A Simile, Or A Quotation Of An Author, Passes For A Mighty Argument.... This Weakness And Effeminacy Of Mankind In Being Persuaded Where They Are Delighted, Have Made Them The Sport Of Orators, Poets, And Men Of Wit.

Truth Is The Same Thing To The Understanding, As Music To The Ear, And Beauty To The Eye.

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.