Ridicule often cuts the knot, where severity fails.

Ridicule often cuts the knot, where severity fails.

Actions from youth, advice from the middle-aged, prayers from the
aged.

Actions from youth, advice from the middle-aged, prayers from the
aged.

Heresie is the school of pride.

Heresie is the school of pride.

After supper walk a mile.

After supper walk a mile.

Nothing is more ill-timed than an ill-timed laugh.

Nothing is more ill-timed than an ill-timed laugh.

Patience lightens the burthen we cannot avert.

Patience lightens the burthen we cannot avert.

Suretyship is the precursor of ruin.

Suretyship is the precursor of ruin.

Not treasured wealth, nor the consul's lictor, can dispel the
mind's bitter conflicts and the cares that flit, like read more

Not treasured wealth, nor the consul's lictor, can dispel the
mind's bitter conflicts and the cares that flit, like bats, about
your fretted roofs.

A leech that will not quit the skin until sated with blood.

A leech that will not quit the skin until sated with blood.