'Tis gone: a thousand such have slipt
Away from my embraces:
And fallen into the dusty crypt
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'Tis gone: a thousand such have slipt
Away from my embraces:
And fallen into the dusty crypt
Of darken'd forms and faces.

If things look badly to-day they may look better tomorrow.

If things look badly to-day they may look better tomorrow.

Integrity is praised and starves.

Integrity is praised and starves.

Bear and forbear.

Bear and forbear.

It will never come out of the flesh that's bred in the bone.

It will never come out of the flesh that's bred in the bone.

To climb steep hills
Requires slow pace at first.

To climb steep hills
Requires slow pace at first.

We take no note of time
But from its loss.

We take no note of time
But from its loss.

The wife is the key of the house.

The wife is the key of the house.

Love and life are for to-day.

Love and life are for to-day.