Friend, for your epitaph I'm grieved,
Where still so much is said;
One half will never be read more

Friend, for your epitaph I'm grieved,
Where still so much is said;
One half will never be believed,
The other never read.

If you cannot conduct yourself with propriety, give place to
those who can.

If you cannot conduct yourself with propriety, give place to
those who can.

This is the real secret of all that indignation.

This is the real secret of all that indignation.

Gamsters and race-horses never last long.

Gamsters and race-horses never last long.

There is more of bitterness than good nature in him.

There is more of bitterness than good nature in him.

A man may cry, Church! Church! at ev'ry word,
With no pore piety than other people--
A read more

A man may cry, Church! Church! at ev'ry word,
With no pore piety than other people--
A daw's not reckoned a religious bird
Because it keeps a-cawing from a steeple.

Prayers and provender hinder no journey.

Prayers and provender hinder no journey.

Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt.

Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt.

We must recoile a little, to the end we may leap the better.

We must recoile a little, to the end we may leap the better.