To place yourself under an obligation is to sell your liberty.

To place yourself under an obligation is to sell your liberty.

The silence often of pure innocence
Persuades, when speaking fails.

The silence often of pure innocence
Persuades, when speaking fails.

Know thyself.
[Lat., Ne quis nimis. (From the Greek)]

Know thyself.
[Lat., Ne quis nimis. (From the Greek)]

Grief brims itself and flows away in tears.

Grief brims itself and flows away in tears.

Hee that gets out of debt, growes rich.

Hee that gets out of debt, growes rich.

You may envy every one, but no one envies you.

You may envy every one, but no one envies you.

Building is a sweet impoverishing.

Building is a sweet impoverishing.

Let them call it mischief;
Then it is past and prosper'd, 'twill be virtue.

Let them call it mischief;
Then it is past and prosper'd, 'twill be virtue.

Not even piety will stay wrinkles, nor the encroachments of age,
nor the advance of death, which cannot be read more

Not even piety will stay wrinkles, nor the encroachments of age,
nor the advance of death, which cannot be resisted.