Every tub must stand upon its bottom.

Every tub must stand upon its bottom.

Idleness ruins the constitution.

Idleness ruins the constitution.

So comes a reck'ning when the banquet's o'er,
The dreadful reckn'ning, and men smile no more.

So comes a reck'ning when the banquet's o'er,
The dreadful reckn'ning, and men smile no more.

An envious man grows lean at another's fatness.

An envious man grows lean at another's fatness.

To hear is to heed.

To hear is to heed.

Every one who repeats it adds something to the scandal. [The
rolling snow-ball.]

Every one who repeats it adds something to the scandal. [The
rolling snow-ball.]

A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own
heart, his next to escape the read more

A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own
heart, his next to escape the censures of the world.

There should be no strife with the vanquished or the dead.

There should be no strife with the vanquished or the dead.

The bird that hath been limed in a bush
With trembling wing misdoubteth every bush.

The bird that hath been limed in a bush
With trembling wing misdoubteth every bush.