How to conduct yourself properly before your superiors.

How to conduct yourself properly before your superiors.

Witty remarks are all very well when spoken at a proper time:
when out of place they are offensive.

Witty remarks are all very well when spoken at a proper time:
when out of place they are offensive.

Let the blacksmith wear the chains he has himself made.

Let the blacksmith wear the chains he has himself made.

Beware of the young doctor and the old barber.

Beware of the young doctor and the old barber.

And maidens call it--Love in idleness.

And maidens call it--Love in idleness.

Much matter decocted into few words.

Much matter decocted into few words.

Let the dead bury the dead.

Let the dead bury the dead.

For glances beget ogles, ogles sighs,
Sighs wishes, wishes words, and words a letter.

For glances beget ogles, ogles sighs,
Sighs wishes, wishes words, and words a letter.

How sweet the task to shield an absent friend!
I ask but this of mine to--not defend.

How sweet the task to shield an absent friend!
I ask but this of mine to--not defend.