It is best to know the worst at once.

It is best to know the worst at once.

Of all smells, bread: of all tasts, salt.

Of all smells, bread: of all tasts, salt.

A fool's bolt is soon shot.

A fool's bolt is soon shot.

The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.
[Lat., Calamitosus est animus futuri anxius.]

The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.
[Lat., Calamitosus est animus futuri anxius.]

How commentators each dark passage shun,
And hold their farthing candle to the sun.

How commentators each dark passage shun,
And hold their farthing candle to the sun.

The first degree of folly is to hold ones selfe wise, the second
to professe it, the third to read more

The first degree of folly is to hold ones selfe wise, the second
to professe it, the third to despise counsell.

The noise is greater then the nuts.

The noise is greater then the nuts.

That is never too often repeated which is never sufficiently
learnt.

That is never too often repeated which is never sufficiently
learnt.

Take the goods the gods provide thee.

Take the goods the gods provide thee.