A laugh, if purchased at the expense of propriety, costs too
much.

A laugh, if purchased at the expense of propriety, costs too
much.

The thread breakes, where it is weakest.

The thread breakes, where it is weakest.

Cover your selfe with your shield, and care not for cryes.

Cover your selfe with your shield, and care not for cryes.

We have not wings, we cannot soar,
But we have feet to scale and climb
By slow read more

We have not wings, we cannot soar,
But we have feet to scale and climb
By slow degrees, by more and more,
The cloudy summits of our time.

What is to be once resolved on should be first often well
considered.

What is to be once resolved on should be first often well
considered.

Chuse none for thy servant who have served thy betters.

Chuse none for thy servant who have served thy betters.

Bear and forbear.

Bear and forbear.

To ask that which is unjust at the hands of the just, is an
injustice in itself; to expect read more

To ask that which is unjust at the hands of the just, is an
injustice in itself; to expect that which is just from the
unjust, is simple folly.

To have money is a feare, not to have it a griefe.

To have money is a feare, not to have it a griefe.