Make all fair allowance for the mistakes of youth.

Make all fair allowance for the mistakes of youth.

Employ thy time well if thou meanest to get leisure.

Employ thy time well if thou meanest to get leisure.

In the mouth of a bad dog fals often a good bone.

In the mouth of a bad dog fals often a good bone.

Idle folks have the most labour.

Idle folks have the most labour.

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot
That it doth singe yourself.

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot
That it doth singe yourself.

Hee that lives well is learned enough.

Hee that lives well is learned enough.

To have properly studied the liberal sciences gives a polish to
our manners, and removes all awkwardness.

To have properly studied the liberal sciences gives a polish to
our manners, and removes all awkwardness.

Praise none too much, for all are fickle.

Praise none too much, for all are fickle.

Shun an inquisitive man, he is invariably a tell-tale.

Shun an inquisitive man, he is invariably a tell-tale.