What boots it at one gate to make defence,
And at another to let in the foe?

What boots it at one gate to make defence,
And at another to let in the foe?

The War is not don so long as my Enemy lives.

The War is not don so long as my Enemy lives.

Every man can master a grief but he that has it.

Every man can master a grief but he that has it.

Is it not sheer madness to live poor to die rich?

Is it not sheer madness to live poor to die rich?

All powerful is the rule of fashion.

All powerful is the rule of fashion.

Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare,
And beauty draws us with a single hair.

Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare,
And beauty draws us with a single hair.

Hee that marries for wealth sells his liberty.

Hee that marries for wealth sells his liberty.

Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues
We write in water.

Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues
We write in water.

The life of man is a winter way.

The life of man is a winter way.