While I am speaking the opportunity is lost.

While I am speaking the opportunity is lost.

A sword laid by,
Which eats into itself, and rusts ingloriously.

A sword laid by,
Which eats into itself, and rusts ingloriously.

Know all and you will pardon all.

Know all and you will pardon all.

The brave or the fortunate can afford to laugh at envy.

The brave or the fortunate can afford to laugh at envy.

No rule is so general, which admits not some exception.

No rule is so general, which admits not some exception.

Busily engaged in doing nothing. [A squirrel in a cage.]

Busily engaged in doing nothing. [A squirrel in a cage.]

The more they drink the more they thirst.

The more they drink the more they thirst.

Nor has he lived in vain, who from his cradle to his grave has
passed his life in seclusion.

Nor has he lived in vain, who from his cradle to his grave has
passed his life in seclusion.

Hee is not free that drawes his chaine.

Hee is not free that drawes his chaine.