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{{Hoyt quote | num = 7 | text = Men keep their engagements when it is an advantage to both parties not to break them. Solon—Answer to Anacharsis. In Plutarch— Life of Solon. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Anacharsis) | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 434 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = 8 | text = Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through. Swdt—Essay on the Faculties of the Mind. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Anacharsis}}) | topic = | page = 434 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = 9 | text = Bonis nocet quisquis pepercerit malis. He hurts the good who spares the bad. Syrus—Maxims. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Law | page = 434 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = 10 | text = Judex damnatur cum nocens absolvitur. The judge is condemned when the guilty is acquitted. Syrus—Maxims. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 434 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = 11 | text = Corruptissima republica, plurimffi leges. The more corrupt the state, the more laws. Tacitus—Annates. III. 27. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Law | page = 434 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = 12 | text = Rebus cunctis inest quidam velut orbis. In all things there is a kind of law of cycles Tacitus—Annates. III. 55. l.i Initia migistratum nostrorum meliora, ferme finis inclinat. Our magistrates discharge their duties best at the beginning; and fall off toward the end. Tacitus—Annates. XV. 31. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Law | page = 434 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = A man must not go to law because the musician keeps false time with his foot. Jeremy Taylor—Vol. VIII. P. 145. The Worthy Communicant. Chap. IV. Sect. IV. Quoted from Schott—Adagia. P. 351. Prov. E, Suida. Cent. II. 17. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Law | page = 434 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Quod vos jus cogit, id voluntate impetret. What the law insists upon, let it have of your own free will Terence—Adelphi. HL 4. 44. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Law | page = 434 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Jus summum ssepe summa est malitia. The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice. Terence—Heauton timoroumenos. IV. 5. 48. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Law | page = 434 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = The law is good, if a man use it lawfully. J Timothy. I. 8. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Law | page = 434 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = No man e'er felt the halter draw, With good opinion of the law. John Trumbull—McFingal. Canto III. L. 489. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Law | page = 434 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = The Law: It has honored us, may we honor it. Daniel Webster—Toast at the Charleston Bar Dinner. May 10, 1847. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Law | page = 434 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = The glorious uncertainty of law. Toast of Wilbraham at a dinner of judges and counsel at Serjeants' Inn Hall, 1756. Quoted by Mr. Sheridan in 1802. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Law | page = 434 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = And he that gives us in these days New Lords may give us new laws. George Wither—Contented Man's Mortice. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Law | page = 434 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = And through the heat of conflict keeps the law In calmness made, and sees what he foresaw. Wordsworth—Character of a Happy Warrior. L. 53. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Law | page = 434 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = He it was that first gave to the law the air of a science. He found it a skeleton, and clothed it with life, colour, and complexion; he embraced the cold statue, and by his touch it grew into youth, health, and beauty. Barry Yelverton | cog = (Lord Avonmore) | work = On Blackstone. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Webster}} under {{sc|Credit}}) | topic = | page = 434 }}

LEARNING

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Much learning doth make thee mad. Acts. XXVI. 24. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Burton}}) | topic = | page = 434 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = It is always in season for old men to learn. iEscHYLUS—Agamemnon. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Learning | page = 434 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = The green retreats Of Academus. Akenstde—Pleasures of the Imagination. Canto I. L. 591. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Learning | page = 434 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Learning hath his infancy, when it is but be-' ginning and almost child&h; then his youth, when it is luxuriant and juvenile; then his strength of years, when it is solid and reduced; and lastly his old age, when it waxeth dry and exhaust. Bacon—Essays Civil and Moral. Of Vicissitude of Things. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Learning | page = 434 }}