It Is When Fortune Is The Most

From Abundance Springs Satiety.

We Can Endure Neither Our Vices Nor Their Cure.

In Adversity Assume The Countenance Of Prosperity, And In Prosperity Moderate The Temper And Desires.

That Sense – The Only True Patriotism – Comes Slowly And Springs From The Heart: It Is Founded Upon Respect For The Family And Love For The Soil. Premature ‘liberty’ Of This Kind Would Have Been A Disaster: We Should Have Been Torn To Pieces By Petty Squabbles Before We Had Ever Reached Political Maturity, Which, As Things Were, As Made Possible By The Long Quiet Years Under Monarchical Government; For It Was That Government Which, As It Were, Nursed Our Strength And Enabled Us Ultimately To Produce Sound Fruit From Liberty, As Only A Politically Adult Nation Can.

All Things Will Be Clear And Distinct To The Man Who Does Not Hurry; Haste Is Blind And Improvident.