Let not your expenditure exceed your income.

Let not your expenditure exceed your income.

This is no time for staring about.

This is no time for staring about.

The swiftness of time is infinite, which is the more evident to
those who look back on what has read more

The swiftness of time is infinite, which is the more evident to
those who look back on what has passed.

Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave.

Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave.

What will their masters not accomplish when low fellows are so
presumptuous?

What will their masters not accomplish when low fellows are so
presumptuous?

For man may pious texts repeat,
And yet religion have no inward seat.

For man may pious texts repeat,
And yet religion have no inward seat.

The covetous are always in want.

The covetous are always in want.

Power call achieve more by gentle means than by violence.

Power call achieve more by gentle means than by violence.

My hair is grey, but not with years.

My hair is grey, but not with years.