Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.

Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.

O, what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practise to deceive!

O, what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practise to deceive!

A Lyons skin is never cheape.

A Lyons skin is never cheape.

I have a kind of alacrity in sinking.

I have a kind of alacrity in sinking.

Love makes a good eye squint.

Love makes a good eye squint.

That business does not prosper which you transact with the eyes
of others.

That business does not prosper which you transact with the eyes
of others.

They let out on hire their passions and eloquence. [Referring to
lawyers.]

They let out on hire their passions and eloquence. [Referring to
lawyers.]

Hee that gets out of debt, growes rich.

Hee that gets out of debt, growes rich.

For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime,
Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer.

For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime,
Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer.