Everything in art is but a copy of nature.

Everything in art is but a copy of nature.

Patience lightens the burthen we cannot avert.

Patience lightens the burthen we cannot avert.

To climb steep hills
Requires slow pace at first.

To climb steep hills
Requires slow pace at first.

He would stroke
The head of modest and ingenuous youth,
That blushed at its own praise.

He would stroke
The head of modest and ingenuous youth,
That blushed at its own praise.

Good hay, sweet hay, hath no fellow.

Good hay, sweet hay, hath no fellow.

Ridicule often cuts the knot, where severity fails.

Ridicule often cuts the knot, where severity fails.

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

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

He cannot be vertuous that is not rigorous.

He cannot be vertuous that is not rigorous.

A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country, and in
his own house.

A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country, and in
his own house.