No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en.
In brief, sir, study what you most effect.

No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en.
In brief, sir, study what you most effect.

Unless the vessel be pure, everything which is poured into it
will turn sour.

Unless the vessel be pure, everything which is poured into it
will turn sour.

So still we glide down to the sea
Of fathomless eternity.

So still we glide down to the sea
Of fathomless eternity.

The fellow is either a madman or a poet.

The fellow is either a madman or a poet.

All men have more consideration for themselves than for others.

All men have more consideration for themselves than for others.

A mountaine and a river are good neighbours.

A mountaine and a river are good neighbours.

A fat house-keeper makes leane Executors.

A fat house-keeper makes leane Executors.

But we are all men
In our own natures frail.

But we are all men
In our own natures frail.

God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.

God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.