Joking apart, now let us be serious.

Joking apart, now let us be serious.

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.

That in the captain's but a choleric word,
Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy.

That in the captain's but a choleric word,
Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy.

I hate all children of precocious talent.

I hate all children of precocious talent.

He that sends a foole expects one.

He that sends a foole expects one.

Few tyrants go down to the infernal regions by a natural death.

Few tyrants go down to the infernal regions by a natural death.

Rashness is the companion of youth, prudence of old age.

Rashness is the companion of youth, prudence of old age.

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

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

Law sutes consume time, and mony, and rest, and friends.

Law sutes consume time, and mony, and rest, and friends.