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.

Nature herself makes the wise man rich.

It is foolish to pluck out one's hair for sorrow, as if grief could be assuaged by baldness.

It has seemed to be more necessary to have regard to the weight of words rather than to their number.

Judge not by the number, but by the weight.

A wise man does nothing by constraint.

Such are a well regulated militia, composed of the freeholders, citizen and husbandman, who take up arms to preserve their property, as individuals, and their rights as freemen.