The Causes Of Events Are

Scurrility Has No Object In View But Incivility; If It Is Uttered From Feelings Of Petulance, It Is Mere Abuse; If It Is Spoken In A Joking Manner, It May Be Considered Raillery.

Men Resemble The Gods In Nothing So Much As In Doing Good To Their Fellow Creatures.

In Nothing Do Humans Approach So Nearly To The Gods As Doing Good To Others.

Nothing In Oratory Is More Important Than To Win For The Orator The Favour Of His Hearer, And To Have The Latter So Affected As To Be Swayed By Something Resembling An Impulse Of The Spirit Impetu Quodam Animi Or Emotion Perturbatione, Rather Than By Judgment Or Deliberation. For Men Decide Far More Problems By Hate, Or Love, Or Lust, Or Rage, Or Sorrow, Or Joy, Or Hope, Or Fear, Or Illusion, Or Some Other Inward Emotion Aliqua Permotione Mentis, Than By Reality Or Authority, Or Any Legal Standard, Or Judicial Precedent Or Statute.

Whatever That Be Which Thinks, Understands, Wills, And Acts, It Is Something Celestial And Divine.