Conscience, the executioner, shaking her secret scourge.

Conscience, the executioner, shaking her secret scourge.

Lay her in the earth,
And from her fair and unpolluted flesh
May violets spring.

Lay her in the earth,
And from her fair and unpolluted flesh
May violets spring.

A coward calls himself cautious, a miser thrifty.

A coward calls himself cautious, a miser thrifty.

When a man is pleased with the lot of others, he is dissatisfied
with his own, as a matter read more

When a man is pleased with the lot of others, he is dissatisfied
with his own, as a matter of course.

What he has is of no more use to the miser than that which he has
not.

What he has is of no more use to the miser than that which he has
not.

Let the dead bury their dead.

Let the dead bury their dead.

War with vices, but peace with individuals.

War with vices, but peace with individuals.

Of what avail are pedigrees?

Of what avail are pedigrees?

All delay is irksome, but it teaches us wisdom.

All delay is irksome, but it teaches us wisdom.