Silence - Speak Not But

What Can Laws Do Without Morals?

Whoever Feels Pain In Hearing A Good Character Of His Neighbor, Will Feel A Pleasure In The Reverse. And Those Who Despair To Rise In Distinction By Their Virtues, Are Happy If Others Can Be Depressed To A Level Of Themselves.

I Know As Well As Thee That I Am No Poet Born It Is A Trade, I Never Learnt Nor Indeed Could Learn If I Make Verses-'tis In Spite Of Nature And My Stars I Write.

What Signifies Philosophy That Does Not Apply To Some Use? May We Not Learn From Hence, That Black Clothes Are Not So Fit To Wear In A Hot Sunny Climate Or Season, As White Ones; Because In Such Cloaths The Body Is More Heated By The Sun When We Walk Abroad, And Are At The Same Time Heated By The Exercise, Which Double Heat Is Apt To Bring On Putrid Dangerous Fevers? The Soldiers And Seamen, Who Must March And Labour In The Sun, Should In The East Or West Indies Have An Uniform Of White?

Never Ruin An Apology With An Excuse.