For as the law is set over the magistrate, even so are the magistrates set over the people. And therefore, it may be truly said, "that the magistrate is a speaking law, and the law is a silent magistrate.

If the truth were self-evident, eloquence would be unnecessary.

Frugality includes all the other virtues.

Apollo, sacred guard of earth's true core, Whence first came frenzied, wild prophetic word.

To live long, live slowly.

Hours and days and months and years go by; the past returns no more, and what is to be we cannot know; but whatever the time gives us in which we live, we should therefore be content.

Diligence which, as it avails in all things, is also of the utmost moment in pleading causes. Diligence is to be particularly cultivated by us; it is to be constantly exerted; it is capable of effecting almost everything.