We but teach
Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return
To plague the inventor.

We but teach
Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return
To plague the inventor.

While your client is watching for you at the front door, slip out
at the back.

While your client is watching for you at the front door, slip out
at the back.

Pleasures are enhanced by a moderate indulgence.

Pleasures are enhanced by a moderate indulgence.

Strike up the dance, the cava bowl fill high.

Strike up the dance, the cava bowl fill high.

A man he seems of cheerful yesterdays,
And confident to-morrows.

A man he seems of cheerful yesterdays,
And confident to-morrows.

Let him who has once perceived how much that, which has been
discarded, excels that which he has longed read more

Let him who has once perceived how much that, which has been
discarded, excels that which he has longed for, return at once,
and seek again that which he despised.

Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh,
it is a tree of life.

Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh,
it is a tree of life.

Old men, when they scorne young, make much of death.

Old men, when they scorne young, make much of death.

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!"