If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.

If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.

Let your mind, happily contented with the present, care not what
the morrow will bring with it.

Let your mind, happily contented with the present, care not what
the morrow will bring with it.

Yet gold all is not that doth golden seem.

Yet gold all is not that doth golden seem.

So still we glide down to the sea
Of fathomless eternity.

So still we glide down to the sea
Of fathomless eternity.

He that is afraid of leaves, goes not to the wood.

He that is afraid of leaves, goes not to the wood.

But sighs subside, and tears (even widows') shrink,
Like Arno in the summer, to a shallow.

But sighs subside, and tears (even widows') shrink,
Like Arno in the summer, to a shallow.

A snow yeare, a rich yeare.

A snow yeare, a rich yeare.

The first blow is as much as two.

The first blow is as much as two.

For without transformation
Men become wolves on every slight occasion.

For without transformation
Men become wolves on every slight occasion.