Be To Yourself As You Would To

We Must Not Stint Our Necessary Actions In The Fear To Cope Malicious Censurers, Which Ever, As Rav'nous Fishes, Do A Vessel Follow That Is New-trimmed, But Benefit No Further Than Vainly Longing.

Or Are You Like The Painting Of A Sorrow, A Face Without A Heart?

The Jury Passing On The Prisoner's Life May In The Sworn Twelve Have A Thief Or Two Guiltier Than Him They Try.

Wise Men Never Sit And Wail Their Loss, But Cheerily Seek How To Redress Their Harms.

Happy Are They That Hear Their Detractions, And Can Put Them To Mending.