So--now the danger dared at last,
Look back and smile at perils past!

So--now the danger dared at last,
Look back and smile at perils past!

Roses grow on thorns and honey wears a sting.

Roses grow on thorns and honey wears a sting.

O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults
Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year.

O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults
Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year.

'Tis strange, but true: for truth is always strange;
Stranger than fiction.

'Tis strange, but true: for truth is always strange;
Stranger than fiction.

He who rushes headlong into love will fare worse than if he had
cast himself from a precipice.

He who rushes headlong into love will fare worse than if he had
cast himself from a precipice.

My hair is grey, but not with years.

My hair is grey, but not with years.

Snuffling through his nose some stale joke.

Snuffling through his nose some stale joke.

To taste many things bespeaks but a poor appetite. [To engage in
a multiplicity of studies shows but a read more

To taste many things bespeaks but a poor appetite. [To engage in
a multiplicity of studies shows but a weak mind.]

Fortune may rob us of our wealth, not of our courage.

Fortune may rob us of our wealth, not of our courage.