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"Abstracts, abridgments, and summaries, etc., have the same use with burning-glasses,&mdash;to collect the diffused rays of wit and learning in authors and make them point with warmth and quickness upon the reader's imagination."&mdash;.

"The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation."&mdash;

"A reader must confine himself to certain limits, and select only the choice parts from those immense collections which the study of one person cannot possibly comprehend."&mdash;.

"Justice is the greatest interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together wherever her temple stands, and so long as it is duly honored there is a foundation for social security, general happiness, and the improvement and progress of our race. And whoever labors on this edifice with usefulness and distinction, whoever clears its foundations, strengthens its pillars, adorns its entablatures, or contributes to raise its august dome still higher in the skies, connects himself, in name and fame and character, with that which is and must be as durable as the fame of human society."&mdash;.

"There can be no less acknowledged of Law than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world; that all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power; both angels and men, and creatures of what condition soever, though each in a different sort and manner, yet all with uniform consent, admiring her as the mother of their peace and joy."&mdash;.

"Mankind in general are not sufficiently aware that words without meaning, or of equivocal meaning, are the everlasting engines of fraud 63