Fiction Lags After Truth, Invention Is Unfruitful,

No Man Can Mortgage His Injustice As A Pawn For His Fidelity.

Evil Prevails When Good Men Fail To Act.

Neither The Few Nor The Many Have A Right To Act Merely By Their Will, In Any Matter Connected With Duty, Trust, Engagement, Or Obligation.

Fiction Lags After Truth, Invention Is Unfruitful, And Imagination Cold And Barren.

Those Who Have Been Once Intoxicated With Power, And Have Derived Any Kind Of Emolument From It, Even Though But For One Year, Never Can Willingly Abandon It. They May Be Distressed In The Midst Of All Their Power; But They Will Never Look To Anything But Power For Their Relief.