Great Fortune brings with it Great misfortune.

Great Fortune brings with it Great misfortune.

Water trotted is as good as oates.

Water trotted is as good as oates.

Shoemaker, stick to your last.
[Lat., Ne supra crepidam judicaret.]

Shoemaker, stick to your last.
[Lat., Ne supra crepidam judicaret.]

Idle people have the least leisure.

Idle people have the least leisure.

Whenever you see a fellow-creature in trouble, remember that he
is a man.

Whenever you see a fellow-creature in trouble, remember that he
is a man.

He is onely bright that shines by himselfe.

He is onely bright that shines by himselfe.

Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare,
And beauty draws us with a single hair.

Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare,
And beauty draws us with a single hair.

Foes, friends, men, women, now are nought to me
But dreams of what has been, no more to be.

Foes, friends, men, women, now are nought to me
But dreams of what has been, no more to be.

With but a plank between them and their fate.

With but a plank between them and their fate.