In extraordinary events ignorance of their causes produces astonishment.
Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.
Diligence which, as it avails in all things, is also of the utmost moment in pleading causes. Diligence is to be particularly cultivated by us; it is to be constantly exerted; it is capable of effecting almost everything.
Physicians, when the cause of disease is discovered, consider that the cure is discovered.
Orators are most vehement when they have the weakest cause, as men get on horseback when they cannot walk.
The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves.
The strictest law often causes the most serious wrong
Courage is virtue which champions the cause of right.