Note

I have not patience for the lazy rhetorician, who supposes that his art alone is sufficient to convict me of his opinion. Else he provide an equal measure of crude fact, he may as well be crying out to me the cries of an insane man and a fool. I could even do without his art entirely, and simply be presented with the facts, for it is such things that require great effort to acquire and assemble and no argument has any true substance unless it be derived from their ore. The false diamond crafted by the wit of man is not half so precious as the gem discovered deep in the heart of the earth.