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.

I have a kind of alacrity in sinking.

I have a kind of alacrity in sinking.

Hee that stumbles and falles not, mends his pace.

Hee that stumbles and falles not, mends his pace.

The smell of money is good, come whence it may. [Alluding to
Vespasian's tax on ordure.]

The smell of money is good, come whence it may. [Alluding to
Vespasian's tax on ordure.]

Try your skill in gilt first, and then in gold.

Try your skill in gilt first, and then in gold.

A Marchant that gaines not, looseth.

A Marchant that gaines not, looseth.

Children when they are little make parents fooles, when they are
great they make them mad.

Children when they are little make parents fooles, when they are
great they make them mad.

So from that spring, whence comfort seem'd to come,
Discomfort swells.

So from that spring, whence comfort seem'd to come,
Discomfort swells.

What a man does by the agency of another is his own act.

What a man does by the agency of another is his own act.