So from that spring, whence comfort seem'd to come,
Discomfort swells.

So from that spring, whence comfort seem'd to come,
Discomfort swells.

The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together;
our virtues would be proud read more

The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together;
our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not, and
our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our
virtues.

Whom does undeserved honour please, and undeserved blame alarm,
but the base and the liar?

Whom does undeserved honour please, and undeserved blame alarm,
but the base and the liar?

Novelty in all things is charming.

Novelty in all things is charming.

We notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.

We notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.

O wad some power the giftie gie us
To see oursel's as ithers see us!
It wad read more

O wad some power the giftie gie us
To see oursel's as ithers see us!
It wad frae monie a blunder free us.
And foolish notion;
What airs in dress and gait wad lea'e us,
And ev'n devotion!

Eloquence enough, but little wisdom.

Eloquence enough, but little wisdom.

The Italians are wise before the deede, the Germanes in the
deede, the French after the deede.

The Italians are wise before the deede, the Germanes in the
deede, the French after the deede.

In nothing do men so much resemble the gods as in giving help to
their fellow creatures.

In nothing do men so much resemble the gods as in giving help to
their fellow creatures.