Snuffling through his nose some stale joke.

Snuffling through his nose some stale joke.

Work while your strength and years permit you; crooked age will
by-and-by come upon you with silent foot.

Work while your strength and years permit you; crooked age will
by-and-by come upon you with silent foot.

Want of pluck shows want of blood.

Want of pluck shows want of blood.

Honesty is the best policy.

Honesty is the best policy.

Think you if Laura had been Petrarch's wife
He would have written sonnets all his life?

Think you if Laura had been Petrarch's wife
He would have written sonnets all his life?

He lives unsafely, that lookes too neere on things.

He lives unsafely, that lookes too neere on things.

Fortune is never satisfied with bringing one sorrow.

Fortune is never satisfied with bringing one sorrow.

And we must take the current when it serves;
Or lose our ventures.

And we must take the current when it serves;
Or lose our ventures.

In idle wishes fools supinely stay;
Be there a will,--and wisdom finds a way.

In idle wishes fools supinely stay;
Be there a will,--and wisdom finds a way.