What is to be once resolved on should be first often well
considered.

What is to be once resolved on should be first often well
considered.

How often the highest talent lurks in obscurity.
[Lat., Ut saepe summa ingenia in occulto latent!]

How often the highest talent lurks in obscurity.
[Lat., Ut saepe summa ingenia in occulto latent!]

Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things.

Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things.

He that marries late, marries ill.

He that marries late, marries ill.

Must I give way and room to your rash choler?

Must I give way and room to your rash choler?

But sighs subside, and tears (even widows') shrink,
Like Arno in the summer, to a shallow.

But sighs subside, and tears (even widows') shrink,
Like Arno in the summer, to a shallow.

How blessings brighten as they take their flight.

How blessings brighten as they take their flight.

In grasping at uncertainties we lost that which is certain.

In grasping at uncertainties we lost that which is certain.

Nature abhors a vacuum.
[Fr., Natura abhorret vacuum.]

Nature abhors a vacuum.
[Fr., Natura abhorret vacuum.]