1. Should you feel inclined to censureFaults you may in others view,Ask your own heart, ere you venture,If that has not failings, too.Let not friendly vows be broken;Rather strive a friend to gain;Many a word in anger spokenFinds its passage home again.
2. Do not, then, in idle pleasure,Trifle with a brother’s fame;Guard it as a valued treasure,Sacred as your own good name.Do not form opinions blindly.Hastiness to trouble tends;Those of whom we thought unkindly,Oft become our warmest friends.