Time to me this truth has taught
('Tis a treasure worth revealing,)
More offend by want of thought
Than by want of feeling.
—Charles Swain.
1465
A dog's obeyed in office.
—Shakespeare.
1466
A bad man in office is a public calamity.
—French.
1467
Omissions, no less than commissions, are oftentimes branches of injustice.