HOW TO MAKE A LORD OF THE TREASURY.
Take the most stupid man you can find, but who can make his signature; and from ignorance in every thing will never contradict you in any thing. He should not have a brother in the church, for if he has, he will most probably abandon or betray you. Or, take a man of fashion, with any sort of celebrity: if he has accustomed himself to arguments, though the dullness can only be measured by the length of them, he will serve to speak against time, with a certainty in that case of never being answered.