A good principle not rightly understood may prove as hurtful as a bad.

But peaceful was the night Wherein the Prince of Light His reign of peace upon the earth began.

It were a journey like the path to heaven, To help you find them.

Wealth and honours, which most men pursue, easily change masters; they desert to the side which excels in virtue, industry, and endurance of toil, and they abandon the slothful.

Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democratie, Shook the arsenal, and fulmin'd over Greece, To Macedon, and Artaxerxes' throne.

So may'st thou live, till like ripe fruit thou drop Into thy mother's lap.

I will not deny but that the best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words.