Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Of all read more

Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard.
It seems to me most strange that men should fear,
Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come.

Great almes-giving lessens no mans living.

Great almes-giving lessens no mans living.

Simple is the language of truth.

Simple is the language of truth.

Let him who has once perceived how much that, which has been
discarded, excels that which he has longed read more

Let him who has once perceived how much that, which has been
discarded, excels that which he has longed for, return at once,
and seek again that which he despised.

Shun an inquisitive man, he is invariably a tell-tale.

Shun an inquisitive man, he is invariably a tell-tale.

That, which has not its alternation of rest, will not last long.

That, which has not its alternation of rest, will not last long.

Lawyers houses are built on the heads of fooles.

Lawyers houses are built on the heads of fooles.

Little wealth, little care.

Little wealth, little care.

Sorrow concealed, like an oven stopp'd,
Doth burn the heart to cinders, where it is.

Sorrow concealed, like an oven stopp'd,
Doth burn the heart to cinders, where it is.