A good pay-master starts not at assurances.

A good pay-master starts not at assurances.

Every one who repeats it adds something to the scandal. [The
rolling snow-ball.]

Every one who repeats it adds something to the scandal. [The
rolling snow-ball.]

Led on by impulse, and blind and ungovernable desires.

Led on by impulse, and blind and ungovernable desires.

Better buy than borrow.

Better buy than borrow.

Sound conviction should influence us rather than public opinion.

Sound conviction should influence us rather than public opinion.

Get what start the sinner may, Retribution, for all her lame leg,
never quits his track.

Get what start the sinner may, Retribution, for all her lame leg,
never quits his track.

So much greater is our thirst for glory than for virtue.

So much greater is our thirst for glory than for virtue.

Armour is light at table.

Armour is light at table.

Vertue now is in herbs and stones and words onely.

Vertue now is in herbs and stones and words onely.