The power of the legislative being derived from the people by a positive voluntary grant and institution, can be no other than what that positive grant conveyed, which being only to make laws, and not to make legislators, the legislative can have no power to transfer their authority of making laws to any other hands.

【释义】指出别人的短处并不是正直，帮助别人做坏事也不能称为义举。

普通的草木到了秋天就凋零了，只有松柏在秋天，仍郁郁葱葱。点评：南北朝时期刘宋学者刘义庆曾言「蒲柳之姿，望秋而落；松柏之质，凌霜犹茂。」松柏两树皆长青不凋，是志操坚贞的象征。

The most successful leaders are those who see leadership as a responsibility, not a privilege.