Life Protracted Is Protracted Woe.

When Any Calamity Is Suffered, The First Thing To Be Remembered Is, How Much Has Been Escaped.

That We Must All Die, We Always Knew, I Wish I Had Sooner Remembred It.

Let Us Take A Patriot, Where We Can Meet Him; And, That We May Not Flatter Ourselves By False Appearances, Distinguish Those Marks Which Are Certain, From Those Which May Deceive; For A Man May Have The External Appearance Of A Patriot, Without The Constituent Qualities; As False Coins Have Often Lustre, Though They Want Weight.

Oratory Is The Power Of Beating Down Your Adversary's Arguments And Putting Better In Their Place.

It Is Dangerous For Mortal Beauty, Or Terrestrial Virtue, To Be Examined By Too Strong A Light. The Torch Of Truth Shows Much That We Cannot, And All That We Would Not, See.