Not to create confusion in what is clear, but to throw light on
what is obscure.

Not to create confusion in what is clear, but to throw light on
what is obscure.

Give a man enough rope and he'll hang himself.

Give a man enough rope and he'll hang himself.

The strongest and the fiercest spirit
That fought in heaven, now fiercer by despair.

The strongest and the fiercest spirit
That fought in heaven, now fiercer by despair.

Happy is he who can trace effects to their causes.

Happy is he who can trace effects to their causes.

He shall find the rugged thistle bursting
Into glossy purples, that outredden
All voluptuous garden roses.

He shall find the rugged thistle bursting
Into glossy purples, that outredden
All voluptuous garden roses.

Hee that eats the hard shall eate the ripe.

Hee that eats the hard shall eate the ripe.

He that handles a nettle tenderly is soonest stung.

He that handles a nettle tenderly is soonest stung.

So comes a reck'ning when the banquet's o'er,
The dreadful reckn'ning, and men smile no more.

So comes a reck'ning when the banquet's o'er,
The dreadful reckn'ning, and men smile no more.

We must recoile a little, to the end we may leap the better.

We must recoile a little, to the end we may leap the better.