• Policy counselleth a gift, given wisely and in season; And policy afterwards approveth it, for great is the influence of gifts.

    Martin Farquhar Tupper: Policy counselleth a gift, given wisely and in season;
And policy afterwards approveth it, for great is the influence of gifts.
    Martin Farquhar Tupper (1867). “Proverbial Philosophy (the First and Second Series) by Martin F. Tupper”, p.231