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For 'tis not good that children should know any wickedness.
For 'tis not good that children should know any wickedness.
A kindness spontaneously offered to him who needs it, is doubly
gratifying.
A kindness spontaneously offered to him who needs it, is doubly
gratifying.
You may break, you may shatter the vase, as you will,
But the scent of the roses will hang read more
You may break, you may shatter the vase, as you will,
But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.
The vertue of a coward is suspition.
The vertue of a coward is suspition.
Extreme remedies are never the first to be resorted to.
Extreme remedies are never the first to be resorted to.
A people without history is like the wind on the buffalo grass.
A people without history is like the wind on the buffalo grass.
Good hay, sweet hay, hath no fellow.
Good hay, sweet hay, hath no fellow.
There is no proverb which is not true.
[Sp., No hay refran que no sea verdadero.]
There is no proverb which is not true.
[Sp., No hay refran que no sea verdadero.]
There are a kind of men so loose of soul,
That in their sleeps will mutter their affairs.
There are a kind of men so loose of soul,
That in their sleeps will mutter their affairs.