It Is The Nature Of Every Person

No Sensible Man Ever Imputes Inconsistency To Another For Changing His Minds.

Times Are Bad. Children No Longer Obey Their Parents, And Everyone Is Writing A Book.

Fortune, Not Wisdom, Rules Lives.

Sound Conviction Should Influence Us Rather Than Public Opinion.

Nothing In Oratory Is More Important Than To Win For The Orator The Favour Of His Hearer, And To Have The Latter So Affected As To Be Swayed By Something Resembling An Impulse Of The Spirit Impetu Quodam Animi Or Emotion Perturbatione, Rather Than By Judgment Or Deliberation. For Men Decide Far More Problems By Hate, Or Love, Or Lust, Or Rage, Or Sorrow, Or Joy, Or Hope, Or Fear, Or Illusion, Or Some Other Inward Emotion Aliqua Permotione Mentis, Than By Reality Or Authority, Or Any Legal Standard, Or Judicial Precedent Or Statute.