Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day
Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain-tops.

Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day
Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain-tops.

How often the highest talent lurks in obscurity.
[Lat., Ut saepe summa ingenia in occulto latent!]

How often the highest talent lurks in obscurity.
[Lat., Ut saepe summa ingenia in occulto latent!]

The brave or the fortunate can afford to laugh at envy.

The brave or the fortunate can afford to laugh at envy.

Those who scratch their hair with one finger. [Fearing to
discompose their curls. Dandies.]

Those who scratch their hair with one finger. [Fearing to
discompose their curls. Dandies.]

Good Americans when they die go to Paris.

Good Americans when they die go to Paris.

The filth under the white snow, the sunne discovers.

The filth under the white snow, the sunne discovers.

Every ill man hath his ill day.

Every ill man hath his ill day.

Send a wise man on an errand, and say nothing unto him.

Send a wise man on an errand, and say nothing unto him.

When a man sleepes, his head is in his stomach.

When a man sleepes, his head is in his stomach.