Avoid delays: procrastination always does harm.

Avoid delays: procrastination always does harm.

A mind conscious of its own rectitude.
[Lat., Mens sibi conscia recti.]

A mind conscious of its own rectitude.
[Lat., Mens sibi conscia recti.]

Extreme remedies are never the first to be resorted to.

Extreme remedies are never the first to be resorted to.

Well does he sleep who knows not that his sleep has been broken.

Well does he sleep who knows not that his sleep has been broken.

Then let me quaff the foamy tide,
And through the dance meandering glide.

Then let me quaff the foamy tide,
And through the dance meandering glide.

He that trusts in a lie, shall perish in truth.

He that trusts in a lie, shall perish in truth.

Still fisheth he that catcheth one.

Still fisheth he that catcheth one.

You may be on land, yet not in a garden.

You may be on land, yet not in a garden.

Friend, for your epitaph I'm grieved,
Where still so much is said;
One half will never be read more

Friend, for your epitaph I'm grieved,
Where still so much is said;
One half will never be believed,
The other never read.