If the oarsmen of a fast-moving ship suddenly cease to row, the suspension of the driving force of the oars doesn't prevent the vessel from continuing to move on its course. And with a speech it is much the same. After he has finished reciting the document, the speaker will still be able to maintain the same tone without a break, borrowing its momentum and impulse from the passage he has just read out.

Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.

All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.

Do nothing twice over.

Never was a government that was not composed of liars, malefactors and thieves.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.