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The best smell is bread, the best savour, salt, the best love
that of children.
The best smell is bread, the best savour, salt, the best love
that of children.
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.
Don't promise twice what you can do at once.
Don't promise twice what you can do at once.
Between the businesse of life and the day of death, a space ought
to be interposed.
Between the businesse of life and the day of death, a space ought
to be interposed.
The whole family is packed into one trap.
The whole family is packed into one trap.
Better a snotty child, then his nose wip'd off.
Better a snotty child, then his nose wip'd off.
Trifles light as air
Are to the jealous confirmations strong
As proofs of holy writ.
Trifles light as air
Are to the jealous confirmations strong
As proofs of holy writ.
The tongue walkes where the teeth speede not.
The tongue walkes where the teeth speede not.
Learned or unlearned we all must be scribbling.
Learned or unlearned we all must be scribbling.