It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold,
than of the office which one read more

It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold,
than of the office which one fills.
[Fr., Il est plus facile de paraitre digne des emplois qu'on n'a
pas que de ceux que l'on exerce.]

A pilot's part in calms cannot be spy'd,
In dangerous times true worth is only tri'd.

A pilot's part in calms cannot be spy'd,
In dangerous times true worth is only tri'd.

Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.rn

Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.rn

Too good for great things and too great for good.

Too good for great things and too great for good.

Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to read more

Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.

An ounce of enterprise is worth a pound of privilege.

An ounce of enterprise is worth a pound of privilege.

'Tis virtue, wit, and worth, and all
That men divine and sacred call;
For what is worth, read more

'Tis virtue, wit, and worth, and all
That men divine and sacred call;
For what is worth, in anything,
But so much money as 't will bring?

Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow;
The rest is all but leather and prunello.

Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow;
The rest is all but leather and prunello.

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.