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Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.

Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.

Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.