All soils are not fertile.

All soils are not fertile.

When great assurance accompanies a bad undertaking, such is often
mistaken for confiding sincerity by the world at large.

When great assurance accompanies a bad undertaking, such is often
mistaken for confiding sincerity by the world at large.

Breathes there the man with soul so dead,
Who never to himself hath said,
This is my read more

Breathes there the man with soul so dead,
Who never to himself hath said,
This is my own, my native land!
Whose heart hath ne'er within him burn'd,
As home his footsteps he hath turn'd,
From wandering on a foreign strand!

If the mother had not beene in the oven, shee had never sought
her daughter there.

If the mother had not beene in the oven, shee had never sought
her daughter there.

A leech that will not quit the skin until sated with blood.

A leech that will not quit the skin until sated with blood.

What we hear strikes the mind with less force than what we see.

What we hear strikes the mind with less force than what we see.

A friend is a second self.

A friend is a second self.

If you live according to the requirements of nature, you will
never be in want; if according to the read more

If you live according to the requirements of nature, you will
never be in want; if according to the fashions of the world you
will never be rich.

Marry your daughters betimes, lest they marry themselves.

Marry your daughters betimes, lest they marry themselves.