PARTY ZEAL
THERE never was any party, faction, sect, or cabal whatsoever, in which the most ignorant were not the most violent; for a bee is not a busier animal than a blockhead. However, such instruments are necessary to politicians; and perhaps it may be with states as with clocks, which must have some dead weight hanging at them, to help and regulate the motion of the finer and more useful parts.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF ERROR
A MAN should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser to-day than he was yesterday.
A MAN should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser to-day than he was yesterday.
DISPUTATION
THAT Tully says of war may be applied to disputing: it should be always so managed as to remember that the only true end of it is peace; but generally true disputants are like true sportsmen, their whole delight is in the pursuit; and a disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.
THAT Tully says of war may be applied to disputing: it should be always so managed as to remember that the only true end of it is peace; but generally true disputants are like true sportsmen, their whole delight is in the pursuit; and a disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.
CENSORIOUS PEOPLE
SUCH as are still observing upon others are like those who are always abroad at other men’s houses, reforming everything there, while their own runs to ruin.
SUCH as are still observing upon others are like those who are always abroad at other men’s houses, reforming everything there, while their own runs to ruin.
HOW TO BE REPUTED A WISE MAN
A SHORT and certain way to obtain the character of a reasonable and wise man is, whenever any one tells you his opinion, to comply with him.
A SHORT and certain way to obtain the character of a reasonable and wise man is, whenever any one tells you his opinion, to comply with him.
AVARICE
THE CHARACTER of covetousness is what a man generally acquires more through some niggardliness or ill grace in little and inconsiderable things, than in expenses of any consequence. A very few pounds a year would ease that man of the scandal of avarice.
THE CHARACTER of covetousness is what a man generally acquires more through some niggardliness or ill grace in little and inconsiderable things, than in expenses of any consequence. A very few pounds a year would ease that man of the scandal of avarice.
