There Is Little Hope Of Equity Where

It Is Not Good To Wake A Sleeping Lion.

Anger, The Stoics Said, Was A Short Madness.

A Churlish Courtesy Rarely Comes But Either For Gain Or Falsehood.

Like The Air-invested Heron, Great Persons Should Conduct Themselves; And The Higher They Be, The Less They Should Show.

To Be Ambitious Of True Honor And Of The Real Glory And Perfection Of Our Nature Is The Very Principle And Incentive Of Virtue; But To Be Ambitious Of Titles, Place, Ceremonial Respects, And Civil Pageantry, Is As Vain And Little As The Things Are Which We Court