Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honoris a private station.
Joseph AddisonIn the founders of great families, titles or attributes of honor are generally correspondent with the virtues of the person to whom they are applied; but in their descendants they are too often the marks rather of grandeur than of merit. The stamp and denomination still continue, but the intrinsic value is frequently lost.
Joseph AddisonWhether zeal or moderation be the point we aim at, let us keep fire out of the one, and frost out of the other.
Joseph Addison