Time to me this truth has taught
('Tis a treasure worth revealing,)
More offend by want of thought
Than by want of feeling.
--_Charles Swain._
1465
A dog's obeyed in office.
--_Shakespeare._
1466
A bad man in office is a public calamity.
--_French._
1467
Omissions, no less than commissions, are oftentimes branches of
injustice.
--_Antoninus._
1468
It has been shrewdly said, that, when men abuse us, we should suspect
_ourselves_, and when they praise us, _them_.
1469
No liberal man would impute a charge of unsteadiness to another for
having changed his opinion.
--_Cicero._
1470