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.]

Nothing is so swift as calumny, nothing is more easily
propagated, nothing more readily credited, nothing more widely
read more

Nothing is so swift as calumny, nothing is more easily
propagated, nothing more readily credited, nothing more widely
circulated.

Mariana in the moated grange.

Mariana in the moated grange.

An inch in missing is as bad as an ell.

An inch in missing is as bad as an ell.

Good laws are the offspring of bad actions.

Good laws are the offspring of bad actions.

'Tis meet
That noble minds keep ever with their likes:
For who so firm that cannot be read more

'Tis meet
That noble minds keep ever with their likes:
For who so firm that cannot be seduced?

So get the start of the majestic world
And bear the palm alone.

So get the start of the majestic world
And bear the palm alone.

In idle wishes fools supinely stay;
Be there a will,--and wisdom finds a way.

In idle wishes fools supinely stay;
Be there a will,--and wisdom finds a way.

Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world
Like a Colossus, and we petty men
Walk under read more

Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world
Like a Colossus, and we petty men
Walk under his huge legs and peep about
To find ourselves dishonorable graves.