You are not now to think what’s best to do, As in beginnings, but what must be done, Being thus enter’d; and slip no advantage That may secure you. Let them call it mischief; When it is past, and prosper’d , ’twill be virtue.
BEN JONSON
It is the highest of earthly honors to be descended from the great and good. They alone cry out against a noble ancestry who have none of their own.
