The good devout man first makes inner preparation for the actions he has later to perform. His outward actions do not draw him into lust and vice; rather it is he who bends them into the shape of reason and right judgement. Who has a stiffer battle to fight than the man who is striving to conquer himself.

Who overcomes by force hath overcome but half his foe.

But O the truth, the truth. The<br> many eyes<br> That look on it! The diverse things<br> they see.

Presumption means nothing more than as stated by Lord Mansfield, the weighing of probabilities, and deciding, by the powers of common sense, on which side the truth is.

The conscience of a people is their power.

An act against my will is not my act.

Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt.

The wise are instructed by reason; ordinary minds by experience; the stupid, by necessity; and brutes by instinct.

He is not deemed to give consent who is under a mistake.

Human nature constitutes a part of the evidence in every case.