Part II. Of State. William Penn. 1909-14. Fruits of Solitude. The Harvard Classics

William Penn. (1644–1718). Fruits of Solitude.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.

Part II

Of State


198. I love Service, but not State; One is Useful, the other is Superfluous.	1
199. The Trouble of this, as well as Charge, Is Real; but the Advantage only Imaginary.	2
200. Besides, it helps to set us up above our selves, and Augments our Temptation to Disorder.	3
201. The Least Thing out of Joint, or omitted, make us uneasy: and we are ready to think our selves ill served, about that which is of no real Service at all: Or so much better than other Men, as we have the Means of greater State.	4
202. But this is all for want of Wisdom, which carries the truest and most forceable State along with it.	5
203. He that makes not himself Cheap by indiscreet Conversation, puts Value enough upon himself every where.	6
204. The other is rather Pageantry than State.	7