Virtue alone is happiness below.

Virtue alone is happiness below.

Oh, sweet youth, how soon it fades!
Sweet joys of youth, how fleeting!

Oh, sweet youth, how soon it fades!
Sweet joys of youth, how fleeting!

Little dogs start the Hare, the great get her.

Little dogs start the Hare, the great get her.

I hate ingratitude more in man
Than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness,
Or any taint of vice.

I hate ingratitude more in man
Than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness,
Or any taint of vice.

By that sin fell the angels.

By that sin fell the angels.

Then wander forth the sons
Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine.

Then wander forth the sons
Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine.

A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own
heart, his next to escape the read more

A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own
heart, his next to escape the censures of the world.

If the staffe be crooked, the shadow cannot be straight.

If the staffe be crooked, the shadow cannot be straight.

A good prayer is master of anothers purse.

A good prayer is master of anothers purse.