A Man, Like A Watch, Is To

If Thou Wouldst Be Happy, Bring Thy Mind To Thy Condition, And Have An Indifferency For More Than What Is Sufficient.

Five Things Are Requisite To A Good Officer — Ability, Clean Hands, Despatch, Patience, And Impartiality.

Love Grows. Lust Wastes By Enjoyment, And The Reason Is, That One Springs From An Union Of Souls, And The Other From An Union Of Sense.

Governments, Like Clocks, Go From The Motion Men Give Them, And As Governments Are Made And Moved By Men, So By Them They Are Ruined Too. Wherefore Governments Rather Depend Upon Men, Than Men Upon Governments. Let Men Be Good, And The Government Cannot Be Bad; If It Be Ill, They Will Cure It. But If Men Be Bad, Let The Government Be Never So Good, They Will Endeavour To Warp And Spoil It To Their Turn.

Less Judgment Than Wit Is More Sail Than Ballast.