Some things are good, some middling, more bad.

Some things are good, some middling, more bad.

Let the worst come to the worst.

Let the worst come to the worst.

So obliging that he ne'er obliged.

So obliging that he ne'er obliged.

He that speakes sowes, and he that holds his peace, gathers.

He that speakes sowes, and he that holds his peace, gathers.

He invites the commission of a crime who does not forbid it, when
it is in his power to read more

He invites the commission of a crime who does not forbid it, when
it is in his power to do so.

Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep,
And in his simple show he harbors treason.

Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep,
And in his simple show he harbors treason.

He who profits by a crime, commits it.

He who profits by a crime, commits it.

The mother endures with greater courage the loss of one out many
children, than she who, in her tears, read more

The mother endures with greater courage the loss of one out many
children, than she who, in her tears, exclaims, "Thou wast my
only one!"

In doing nothing men learn to do evil.

In doing nothing men learn to do evil.