Cicero: “Was any family ever so well established, any State so firmly settled, as to be beyond the reach of utter destruction…”

And so, when we have leisure from the demands of business cares, we are eager to see, to hear, to learn something new, and we esteem a desire to know the secrets or wonders of creation as indispensable to a happy life.

For there are men who for fear of giving offence do not dare to express their honest opinion, no matter how excellent.

But those wars which have glory for their end must be carried on with less bitterness.

Thus apparent expediency is outweighed when placed in the balance against moral rectitude.