1 There is a sweet joy which comes to us through sorrow. SPURGEON-Gleanings Among the Sheaves. Sweetness in Sorrow. 2 Beauty for Ashes, and oil of joy! 14 My suit has nothing to do with the assault, or battery, or poisoning, but is about three goats, which, I complain, have been stolen by my neighbor. This the judge desires to have proved to him; but you, with swelling words and extravagant gestures, dilate on the Battle of WHITTIER-The Preacher. St. 26. Quoting Canna, the Mithridatic war, and the perjuries of the insensate Carthaginians, the Syllæ, the Marii, and the Mucii. It is time, Postumus, to say something about my three goats. MARTIAL-Epigrams. Bk. VI. Ep. 19. 15 I pleaded your cause, Sextus, having agreed to do so for two thousand sesterces. How is it that you have sent me only a thousand? "You said nothing," you tell me; "and this cause was lost through you." You ought to give me so much the more, Sextus, as I had to blush for you. MARTIAL Epigrams. Bk. VIII. Ep. 18. 16 Judicis officium est ut res ita tempora rerum The judge's duty is to inquire about the time, as well as the facts. OVID Tristium. I. 1. 37. 17 The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, 18 Since twelve honest men have decided the cause, And were judges of fact, tho' not judges of laws. PULTENEY-The Honest Jury. In the Craftsman. Vol. 5. 337. Refers to SIR PHILIP YORKE's unsuccessful prosecution of The Craftsman. (1792) Quoted by LORD MANSFIELD. 19 Si judicas, cognosce: si regnas, jube. If you judge, investigate; if you reign, command. SENECA-Medea. CXCIV. 20 Therefore I say again, I utterly abhor, yea from my soul Refuse you for my judge; whom, yet once more, Henry VIII. Act II. Sc. 4. L. 80. 21 Heaven is above all yet; there sits a judge, That no king can corrupt. Henry VIII. Act III. Sc. 1. L. 100. 22 Thieves for their robbery have authority Measure for Measure. Act II. Sc. 2. L. 176. 23 He who the sword of heaven will bear Measure for Measure. Act III. Sc. 2. L. 275. One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty councils. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat. At any rate, if it is heat it ought to be white heat and not sputter, because sputtering heat is apt to spread the fire. There ought, if there is any heat at all, to be that warmth of the heart which makes every man thrust aside his own personal feeling, his own personal interest, and take thought of the welfare and benefit of others. WOODROW WILSON-Speech at Pittsburgh, Jan. 29, 1916. |