Things Are Only Worth What

Long Is The Road From Conception To Completion.

Too Great Haste Leads Us To Error.

In Order To Prove A Friend To One's Guests, Frugality Must Reign In One's Meals; And, According To An Ancient Saying, One Must Eat To Live, Not Live To Eat.

In Clothes As Well As Speech, The Man Of Sense Will Shun All These Extremes That Give Offense, Dress Unaffectedly, And, Without Haste, Follow The Changes In The Current Taste.

Ah! Devout Though I May Be, I Am No Less A Man!