Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

Since an intelligence common to us all makes things known to us and formulates them in our minds, honorable actions are ascribed by us to virtue, and dishonorable actions to vice; and only a madman would conclude that these judgments are matters of opinion, and not fixed by nature.

We were born to unite with our fellow men, and to join in community with the human race.

Let the force of arms give place to law and justice.

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.

To stumble twice against the same stone, is a proverbsial disgrace.