Fortune favours the bold.

Fortune favours the bold.

Loveliness
Needs not the foreign aid of ornament,
But is, when unadorn'd, adorn'd the most.

Loveliness
Needs not the foreign aid of ornament,
But is, when unadorn'd, adorn'd the most.

Pleasant is the recollection of dangers past.

Pleasant is the recollection of dangers past.

The deepest rivers flow with the least sound.
[Lat., Altissima quaeque flumina minimo sono labuntur.]

The deepest rivers flow with the least sound.
[Lat., Altissima quaeque flumina minimo sono labuntur.]

I hate all children of precocious talent.

I hate all children of precocious talent.

The less of this cold world the more of heaven.

The less of this cold world the more of heaven.

Small habits, well pursued betimes,
May reach the dignity of crimes.

Small habits, well pursued betimes,
May reach the dignity of crimes.

Penny wise, pound foolish.

Penny wise, pound foolish.

Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren
ground--long heath, brown furze, anything. read more

Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren
ground--long heath, brown furze, anything. The wills above be
done, but I would fain die a dry death.