...matters of legislation, there has been altogether too much inconsistency. Someone, I think, has said that if a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing well. Rather than do it half-way, do not do it at all. We should never enter into anything in a legislative...

...may be in haste when there is a necessity for it, but never in a hurry (which you often are); for, if a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing well." ther they are matters from which one may draw a good inference. I am fond of noticing goodness of heart...

...wish to produce the greatest effect, we must limit ourselves to one. Or to advert to a common adage, " if a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing well." If a doctrine is important enough to Ъе inculcated, it is important enough to be inculcated thoroughly....

...divided, 'or let more time be devoted to the objects of its meeting. It is an old and useful adage, if a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing well. Or if neither of these courses sf cm advisable, let the business commence at 9 o'clock on the tirst...

...this may possibly, to some, appear to have more of craft than utility in it: to which I say, first, if a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing rightly; and, next, if it serves no other purpose, it will be a good exercise of thought, &c., to young...

...this may possibly, to some, appear to have more of craft than utility in it : to which I say, first, if a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing rightly ; and, next, if it serves no other purpose, it will be a good exercise of thought, &c., to...

...in Liverpool, and one who sought to excel in all that ho undertook. But as his favourite maxim was " If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing well," profit was often lost sight of in the desire to attain this object. The subject of this notice was...

...Attendants, as may ensure persons of character and respectability. But here it may be truly said, ' If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing well ! ' If it be worth while to provide an Asylum for the Insane, it is worth while also to render that...

...attention than the cattle-stock, and are as varied in colour as they are untraceable in breed. Surely, if a thing is worth doing at all it is worth doing well, and we would strongly urge the desirability of bestowing more pains on these useful and highly profitable...

...to notice what may be considered trifles ; but old Johnson's aphorism always comes across me ; viz., that if a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing well. I twice saw him get on his box from the wrong side of his horses ; namely, on the left, instead of...