Nature Herself Has Imprinted On

Diseases Of The Soul Are More Dangerous And More Numerous Than Those Of The Body.

Some Men Make A Womanish Complaint That It Is A Great Misfortune To Die Before Our Time. I Would Ask What Time? Is It That Of Nature? But She, Indeed, Has Lent Us Life, As We Do A Sum Of Money, Only No Certain Day Is Fixed For Payment. What Reason Then To Complain If She Demands It At Pleasure, Since It Was On This Condition That You Received It.

What Fervent Love Of Herself Would Virtue Excite If She Could Be Seen!

For To Me Every Sort Of Peace With The Citizens Seemed To Be Of More Service Than Civil War.

Laws Should Be Interpreted In A Liberal Sense So That Their Intention May Be Preserved.