When A Nation Or Family Is About

Be Faithful And True Of Word; Let Thy Walk Be Plain And Lowly: Thou Wilt Get On, Though In Savage Land. If Thy Words Be Not Faithful And True, Thy Walk Plain And Lowly, Wilt Thou Get On, Though In Thine Own Home? Standing, See These Words Ranged Before Thee; Driving, See Them Written Upon The Yoke. Then Thou Wilt Get On.

First There Must Be Order And Harmony Within Your Own Mind.

There Has Never Been A Man Mean And At The Same Time Virtuous.

Charity Is That Rational And Constant Affection Which Makes Us Sacrifice Ourselves To The Human Race, As If We Were United With It, So As To Form One Individual, Partaking Equally In Its Adversity And Prosperity.

On Matters Beyond His Ken A Gentleman Speaks With Caution. If Names Are Not Right, Words Are Misused. When Words Are Misused, Affairs Go Wrong. When Affairs Go Wrong, Courtesy And Music Droop, Law And Justice Fail. And When Law And Justice Fail Them, A People Can Move Neither Hand Nor Foot. So A Gentleman Must Be Ready To Put Names In Speech, To Put Words Into Deeds. A Gentleman Is Nowise Careless Of Words.