The thorough-paced politician must laugh at the squeamishness of his
conscience, and read it another lecture.--_South._
A thousand years scarce serve to form a state; an hour may lay it in the
dust.--_Byron._
Extended empire, like extended gold, exchanges solid strength for feeble
splendor.--_Johnson._
~Possessions.~--It so falls out that what we have we prize not to the
worth whiles we enjoy it; but being lacked and lost, why then we rack
the value; then we find the virtue that possession would not show us
whiles it was ours.--_Shakespeare._