No man ever stated his griefs as lightly as he might. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Of how few lives does not stated duty claim the greater part? [ Johnson ]

In my interview with the king of the French, he stated expressly that the drunkenness of France was occasioned by wine. [ Hon. E. C. Delavan ]

There is a mean in all things. Even virtue itself hath its stated limits; which not being strictly observed, it ceases to be virtue. [ Horace ]

Truth does not consist in minute accuracy of detail, but in conveying a right impression; and there are vague ways of speaking that are truer than strict facts would be. When the Psalmist said, "Rivers of water run down mine eyes, because men keep not thy law," he did not state the fact but he stated a truth deeper than fact and truer. [ Dean Alford ]