The Thing I Fear Most

There Is More Ado To Interpret Interpretations Than To Interpret Things, And More Books Upon Books Than Upon Any Other Subject; We Do Nothing But Comment Upon One Another. Every Place Swarms With Commentaries; Of Authors There Is Great Scarcity.

'tis The Sharpness Of Our Mind That Gives The Edge To Our Pains And Pleasures.

It Is Not Death, It Is Dying That Alarms Me.

Examples Teach Us That In Military Affairs, And All Others Of A Like Nature, Study Is Apt To Enervate And Relax The Courage Of Man, Rather Than To Give Strength And Energy To The Mind.

The Laws Of Conscience, Which We Pretend To Be Derived From Nature, Proceed From Custom.