Not To Be Provok'd Is Best: But

Man, Being Made Reasonable, And So A Thinking Creature, There Is Nothing More Worthy Of His Being Than The Right Direction And Employment Of His Thoughts; Since Upon This Depends Both His Usefulness To The Public, And His Own Present And Future Benefit In All Respects.

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

Less Judgment Than Wit Is More Sail Than Ballast. Yet It Must Be Confessed That Wit Given An Edge To Sense, And Recommends It Extremely.

There Can Be No Friendship Where There Is No Freedom.

Let Us Then Try What Love Will Do: For If Men Do Once See We Love Them, We Should Soon Find They Would Not Harm Us.