Friend, for your epitaph I'm grieved,
Where still so much is said;
One half will never be read more

Friend, for your epitaph I'm grieved,
Where still so much is said;
One half will never be believed,
The other never read.

Is it not sheer madness to live poor to die rich?

Is it not sheer madness to live poor to die rich?

Be wise to-day; 'tis madness to defer.

Be wise to-day; 'tis madness to defer.

Unexpected results are the rule rather than the exception.

Unexpected results are the rule rather than the exception.

He who trusts himself for safety to the care of a wicked man, in
seeking succour meets with ruin.

He who trusts himself for safety to the care of a wicked man, in
seeking succour meets with ruin.

Work at it night and day.

Work at it night and day.

Think you if Laura had been Petrarch's wife
He would have written sonnets all his life?

Think you if Laura had been Petrarch's wife
He would have written sonnets all his life?

Performed to a T.

Performed to a T.

'Tis godlike to have power, but not to kill.

'Tis godlike to have power, but not to kill.