Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge -- fitter to bruise than polish.

I am obnoxious to each carping tongue who says my hand a needle better fits.

My hope and treasure lies above

Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.

I happy am, if well with you.

If we had not winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.

I am obnoxious to each carping tongue/ Who says my hand a needle better fits./ A poet's pen all scorn I should thus wrong/ For such despite they cast on female wits;/ If what I do prove well, it won't advance,/ They'll say it's stolen, or else, it was by chance.