John Looked Ruddy And Plump,

Law Is A Bottomless-pit, It Is A Cormorant, A Harpy, That Devours Every Thing.

Truth Is The Same Thing To The Understanding, As Music To The Ear, And Beauty To The Eye.

He That Sows His Grain Upon Marble Will Have Many A Hungry Belly Before His Harvest.

Unjust Force Can Never Give Any Just Dominion.

When I Became Thoroughly Acquainted With The Greek And Roman Authors, I Thought It Incumbent Upon Me To Do Something Towards The Honor Of The Place Of My Nativity, And To Vindicate The Rhetoric Of This Ancient Forum Of Our Metropolis From The Aspersions Of The Illiterate By Composing A Treatise Of The Alercation Of The Ancients; Wherein I Have Demonstrated That The Purity, Sincerity, And Simplicity Of Their Diction Is Nowhere So Well Preserved As Amongst My Neighbourhood.