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The best smell is bread, the best savour, salt, the best love
that of children.
The best smell is bread, the best savour, salt, the best love
that of children.
Great trees are good for nothing but shade.
Great trees are good for nothing but shade.
How use doth breed a habit in a man!
How use doth breed a habit in a man!
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.
By hesitation the opportunity is often lost.
By hesitation the opportunity is often lost.
Call me not an olive, till thou see me gathered.
Call me not an olive, till thou see me gathered.
Conversation makes one what he is.
Conversation makes one what he is.
Penny wise, pound foolish.
Penny wise, pound foolish.
And there is a worm in the lonely wood,
That pierces the liver and blackens the blood,
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And there is a worm in the lonely wood,
That pierces the liver and blackens the blood,
And makes it a sorrow to be.