Careful Words

weal (n.)

Farewell! if ever fondest prayer

For other's weal avail'd on high,

Mine will not all be lost in air,

But waft thy name beyond the sky.

Lord Byron 1788-1824: Farewell! if ever fondest Prayer.

  The public weal requires that men should betray and lie and massacre.

Michael De Montaigne (1533-1592): Book iii. Chap. i. Of Profit and Honesty.