Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.

Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.

To have done, is to hang
Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail
In monumental mockery.

To have done, is to hang
Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail
In monumental mockery.

Now to drink and trip it on the light fantastic toe.

Now to drink and trip it on the light fantastic toe.

He that takes not up a pin, slights his wife.

He that takes not up a pin, slights his wife.

Even the good Homer is sometimes caught napping.

Even the good Homer is sometimes caught napping.

Good horses make short miles.

Good horses make short miles.

Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.

Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.

Let him play the second fiddle who can't play the first.

Let him play the second fiddle who can't play the first.

He who has once made himself notorious as utterly unprincipled,
is not credited even when he speaks the truth.

He who has once made himself notorious as utterly unprincipled,
is not credited even when he speaks the truth.