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.

This was the penn'worth of his thought.

This was the penn'worth of his thought.

I would that I were low laid in my grave.
I am not worth this coil that's made for read more

I would that I were low laid in my grave.
I am not worth this coil that's made for me.

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.]

It is a maxim, that those to whom everybody allows the second
place have an undoubted title to the read more

It is a maxim, that those to whom everybody allows the second
place have an undoubted title to the first.

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.

It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.

It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.

In native worth and honour clad.

In native worth and honour clad.

'Tis fortune gives us birth,
But Jove alone endues the soul with worth.

'Tis fortune gives us birth,
But Jove alone endues the soul with worth.