Let nothing offensive to the ear or the eye enter these
thresholds, within which youth dwells.

Let nothing offensive to the ear or the eye enter these
thresholds, within which youth dwells.

Neither shall the wave, which has passed on, ever be recalled;
nor can the hour, which has once fled read more

Neither shall the wave, which has passed on, ever be recalled;
nor can the hour, which has once fled by, return again.

Oft expectation fails, and most oft there,
Where most it promises.

Oft expectation fails, and most oft there,
Where most it promises.

He who leaves a fault unpunished invites crime.

He who leaves a fault unpunished invites crime.

Sweet is pleasure after pain.

Sweet is pleasure after pain.

A City that parlies is half gotten.

A City that parlies is half gotten.

The mind flies back with a grand recoil
From debts not due till to-morrow.

The mind flies back with a grand recoil
From debts not due till to-morrow.

In every Art it is good to have a master.

In every Art it is good to have a master.

Weeds are shallow-rooted,
Suffer them now, and they'll o'ergrow the garden,
And choke the herbs for want read more

Weeds are shallow-rooted,
Suffer them now, and they'll o'ergrow the garden,
And choke the herbs for want of husbandry.