Love and life are for to-day.

Love and life are for to-day.

When elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers.

When elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers.

There are faults we would fain pardon.

There are faults we would fain pardon.

Ease and honour are seldom bed-fellows.

Ease and honour are seldom bed-fellows.

What we hear strikes the mind with less force than what we see.

What we hear strikes the mind with less force than what we see.

Wee know not who lives or dies.

Wee know not who lives or dies.

Poverty is the mother of health.

Poverty is the mother of health.

This is my wish, this is my command, my pleasure is my reason.

This is my wish, this is my command, my pleasure is my reason.

Win us with honest trifles, to betray us
In deepest consequence.

Win us with honest trifles, to betray us
In deepest consequence.