Good workemen are seldome rich.

Good workemen are seldome rich.

Are not these woods
More free from peril than the envious court?

Are not these woods
More free from peril than the envious court?

'Tis strange, but true: for truth is always strange;
Stranger than fiction.

'Tis strange, but true: for truth is always strange;
Stranger than fiction.

For a morning raine leave not your journey.

For a morning raine leave not your journey.

He who tries to protect himself from deception is often cheated,
even when most on his guard.

He who tries to protect himself from deception is often cheated,
even when most on his guard.

Those, that with haste will make a mighty fire,
Begin it with weak straws.

Those, that with haste will make a mighty fire,
Begin it with weak straws.

The wicked flee when no man pursueth.

The wicked flee when no man pursueth.

Nothing is so intolerable as a woman with a long purse.

Nothing is so intolerable as a woman with a long purse.

Who backs his rigid Sabbath, so to speak,
Against the wicked remnant of the week."

Who backs his rigid Sabbath, so to speak,
Against the wicked remnant of the week."