Much matter decocted into few words.

Much matter decocted into few words.

That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat
Of habit's devil.

That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat
Of habit's devil.

My hair is grey, but not with years.

My hair is grey, but not with years.

Where lives the man that has not tried,
How mirth can into folly glide,
And folly into read more

Where lives the man that has not tried,
How mirth can into folly glide,
And folly into sin!

Into a mouth shut flies flie not.

Into a mouth shut flies flie not.

He who preserves a man's life against his will does the same
thing as if he slew him.

He who preserves a man's life against his will does the same
thing as if he slew him.

A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country, and in
his own house.

A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country, and in
his own house.

The thread breakes, where it is weakest.

The thread breakes, where it is weakest.

A faire wife and a frontire Castle breede quarrels.

A faire wife and a frontire Castle breede quarrels.