As A Stick, When Once It Is

Smiling Always With A Never Fading Serenity Of Countenance, And Flourishing In An Immortal Youth.

Wherefore For The Public Interest And Benefit Of Human Society It Is Requisite That The Highest Obligations Possible Should Be Laid Upon The Consciences Of Men.

That In Affairs Of Very Considerable Importance Men Should Deal With One Another With Satisfaction Of Mind, And Mutual Confidence, They Must Receive Competent Assurances Concerning The Integrity, Fidelity, And Constancy Each Of Other.

Virtue Is Not A Mushroom, That Springeth Up Of Itself In One Night When We Are Asleep, Or Regard It Not; But A Delicate Plant, That Groweth Slowly And Tenderly, Needing Much Pains To Cultivate It, Much Care To Guard It, Much Time To Mature It, In Our Untoward Soil, In This World's Unkindly Weather.

Nothing Hath Wrought More Prejudice To Religion, Or Brought More Disparagement Upon Truth, Than Boisterous And Unseasonable Zeal.