Poverty, Poetry, And New Titles Of Honor,

A Great Empire, Like A Great Cake, Is Most Easily Diminished At The Edges.

Even Peace May Be Purchased At Too High A Price.

My Rule, In Which I Have Always Found Satisfaction, Is, Never To Turn Aside In Public Affairs Through Views Of Private Interest; But To Go Straight Forward In Doing What Appears To Me Right At The Time, Leaving The Consequences With Providence.

One Good Husband Is Worth Two Good Wives, For The Scarcer Things Are, The More They Are Valued.

In Other Men We Faults Can Spy,/ And Blame The Mote That Dims Their Eye;/ Each Little Speck And Blemish Find;/ To Our Own Stronger Errors Blind.