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Hee wrongs not an old man that steales his supper from him.
Hee wrongs not an old man that steales his supper from him.
Let not our proposal be disregarded on the score of our youth.
Let not our proposal be disregarded on the score of our youth.
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.
Some things are good, some middling, more bad.
Some things are good, some middling, more bad.
He has carried every point, who has combined that which is useful
with that which is agreeable.
He has carried every point, who has combined that which is useful
with that which is agreeable.
Whither goest thou?
[Lat., Quo vadis?]
Whither goest thou?
[Lat., Quo vadis?]
O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults
Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year.
O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults
Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year.
Better do nothing than do ill.
Better do nothing than do ill.
Don't promise twice what you can do at once.
Don't promise twice what you can do at once.