For glances beget ogles, ogles sighs,
Sighs wishes, wishes words, and words a letter.

For glances beget ogles, ogles sighs,
Sighs wishes, wishes words, and words a letter.

Cruelty is more cruell, if we defer the pain.

Cruelty is more cruell, if we defer the pain.

Wishing, of all employments is the worst.

Wishing, of all employments is the worst.

A soft answer turneth away wrath.

A soft answer turneth away wrath.

I have other fish to fry.

I have other fish to fry.

Your knowing a thing is nothing, unless another knows you know
it.

Your knowing a thing is nothing, unless another knows you know
it.

He who quarrels with a drunken man injures one who is absent.

He who quarrels with a drunken man injures one who is absent.

I must be cruel only to be kind.

I must be cruel only to be kind.

The mother endures with greater courage the loss of one out many
children, than she who, in her tears, read more

The mother endures with greater courage the loss of one out many
children, than she who, in her tears, exclaims, "Thou wast my
only one!"