So may the outward shows be least themselves;
The world is still deceived with ornament.

So may the outward shows be least themselves;
The world is still deceived with ornament.

Trees eate but once.

Trees eate but once.

One father is more then a hundred Schoolemasters.
[One father is more than a hundred Schoolmasters.]

One father is more then a hundred Schoolemasters.
[One father is more than a hundred Schoolmasters.]

Lightning strikes the tops of the mountains.

Lightning strikes the tops of the mountains.

If you have no enemies it is a sign fortune has forgot you.

If you have no enemies it is a sign fortune has forgot you.

He who seeks to terrify others is more in fear himself.

He who seeks to terrify others is more in fear himself.

So may the outward shows be least themselves;
The world is still deceived with ornament.
In law, read more

So may the outward shows be least themselves;
The world is still deceived with ornament.
In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt
But being seasoned with a gracious voice,
Obscures the show of evil? In religion,
What damned error but some sober brow
Will bless it and approve it with a text,
Hiding the grossness with fair ornament?

He told me once
The saddest thing that can befall the soul,
Is when it loses faith read more

He told me once
The saddest thing that can befall the soul,
Is when it loses faith in God and woman,
For he had lost them both. Lost I those gems,
Though the world's throne stood open in my path,
I would go wandering back into my childhood,
Searching for them with tears.

A coward calls himself cautious, a miser thrifty.

A coward calls himself cautious, a miser thrifty.