Our sincerest laughter
With some pain is fraught:
Our sweetest songs are those which tell of saddest read more

Our sincerest laughter
With some pain is fraught:
Our sweetest songs are those which tell of saddest thought.

A friend should bear a friend's infirmities.

A friend should bear a friend's infirmities.

A man perfect to the finger tips.

A man perfect to the finger tips.

Nature has placed his own happiness in each man's hands, if he
only knew how to use it.

Nature has placed his own happiness in each man's hands, if he
only knew how to use it.

A gift much expected is paid, not given.

A gift much expected is paid, not given.

Poore and liberall, rich and coveteous.

Poore and liberall, rich and coveteous.

'Tis hard to be wretched, but worse to be knowne so.

'Tis hard to be wretched, but worse to be knowne so.

No rule is so general, which admits not some exception.

No rule is so general, which admits not some exception.

There are games in which it is better to lose than win.

There are games in which it is better to lose than win.