A Man, Like A Watch, Is To

A Good End Cannot Sanctify Evil Means; Nor Must We Ever Do Evil That Good May Come Of It. We Are Too Ready To Retaliate, Rather Than Forgive, Or Gain By Love And Information. And Yet We Could Hurt No Man That We Believe Loves Us. Let Us, Then, Try What Love Will Do: For If Men Do Once See That We Love Them, We Should Soon Find They Would Not Harm Us. Force May Subdue, But Love Gains; And He That Forgives First, Wins The Laurel.

Make Few Resolutions, But Keep Them Strictly

False-dealing Travels A Short Road, And Surely Detected.

It Is Wise Not To Seek A Secret, And Honest Not To Reveal One.

If Thou Rise With An Appetite, Thou Art Sure Never To Sit Down Without One.