Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
XI.
A good character is the first essential in a man. It is, therefore, highly important to endeavor not only to be learned, but virtuous.
XII.
I am resolved that no misrepresentations, falsehoods, or calumny shall make me swerve from what I conceive to be the strict line of duty.
The Work of a Sunbeam.
Nathan G. Shepherd.
I have read in old tales of the buried past,
Of two armies which met on the battle-plain;