Building is a sweet impoverishing.

Building is a sweet impoverishing.

Nothing succeeds like success.
[Fr., Rien ne reussit comme le succes.]

Nothing succeeds like success.
[Fr., Rien ne reussit comme le succes.]

Wine and women bring misery.

Wine and women bring misery.

Here's metal more attractive.

Here's metal more attractive.

It is success that colours all in life,
Success makes fools admir'd, makes villains honest.

It is success that colours all in life,
Success makes fools admir'd, makes villains honest.

Weariness
Can snore upon the flint when resty sloth
Finds the down pillow hard.

Weariness
Can snore upon the flint when resty sloth
Finds the down pillow hard.

The king can do no wrong.

The king can do no wrong.

Let never maiden think, however fair,
She is not fairer in new clothes than old.

Let never maiden think, however fair,
She is not fairer in new clothes than old.

He will often have to scratch his head, and bite his nails to the
quick. [To succeed he will read more

He will often have to scratch his head, and bite his nails to the
quick. [To succeed he will have to puzzle his brains and work
hard.]