Speech is silvern, silence is golden.

Speech is silvern, silence is golden.

Can heavenly breasts such stormy passions feel?

Can heavenly breasts such stormy passions feel?

Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.

Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.

Time stoops to no man's lure.

Time stoops to no man's lure.

Step after step the ladder is ascended.

Step after step the ladder is ascended.

Stir not dying embers.

Stir not dying embers.

Retirement without literary amusements is death itself, and a
living tomb.

Retirement without literary amusements is death itself, and a
living tomb.

God keep me from false friends!

God keep me from false friends!

I had rather aske of my sire browne bread, then borrow of my
neighbour white.

I had rather aske of my sire browne bread, then borrow of my
neighbour white.