Thomas Fuller

One that would have the fruit must climb the tree.

One that would have the fruit must climb the tree.

If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too.

If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too.

Let him who expects one class of society to prosper in the highest degree, while the other is in distress, read more

Let him who expects one class of society to prosper in the highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side ;of the face can smile while the other is pinched.

Memory [is] like a purse,--if it be over-full that it cannot
shut, all will drop out of it. Take read more

Memory [is] like a purse,--if it be over-full that it cannot
shut, all will drop out of it. Take heed of a gluttonous
curiosity to feed on many things, lest the greediness of the
appetite of thy memory spoil the digestion thereof.

No time to break jests when the heartstrings are about to be
broken.

No time to break jests when the heartstrings are about to be
broken.