Great cowardice is hidden by a bluster of daring.

Great cowardice is hidden by a bluster of daring.

Sit in your place and none can make you rise.

Sit in your place and none can make you rise.

In a Leopard the spotts are not observed.

In a Leopard the spotts are not observed.

To take the nuts from the fire with the dogges foot.
[To take the nuts from the fire with read more

To take the nuts from the fire with the dogges foot.
[To take the nuts from the fire with the dog's foot.]

Now, my sere fancy "falls into the yellow
Leaf," and imagination droops her pinion;
And the sad read more

Now, my sere fancy "falls into the yellow
Leaf," and imagination droops her pinion;
And the sad truth, which hovers o'er my desk,
Turns what was once romantic to burlesque.

The miser is ever in want.

The miser is ever in want.

Do you desire not to be angry? Be not inquisitive. He who
inquires what is said of him only read more

Do you desire not to be angry? Be not inquisitive. He who
inquires what is said of him only works out his own misery.

What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name
would smell as sweet.

What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name
would smell as sweet.

Go West, young man, and grow up with the country.

Go West, young man, and grow up with the country.