To buy deare is not bounty.

To buy deare is not bounty.

Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth
the law, happy is he.

Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth
the law, happy is he.

Time shall unfold what plaited cunning hides.

Time shall unfold what plaited cunning hides.

There is no retracing our steps.

There is no retracing our steps.

The destruction of the poor is their poverty.

The destruction of the poor is their poverty.

But pleasures are like poppies spread:
You seize the flower,--its bloom is shed.

But pleasures are like poppies spread:
You seize the flower,--its bloom is shed.

There is no disputing about taste.
[Lat., De gustibus non disputandum.]

There is no disputing about taste.
[Lat., De gustibus non disputandum.]

E'en his failings leaned to virtue's side.

E'en his failings leaned to virtue's side.

The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age, payable
with interest about thirty years after date.

The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age, payable
with interest about thirty years after date.