Art can do much, but this maxim's most sure/A weak or wounded brain admits no cure.
A prosperous state makes a secure Christian, but adversity makes him Consider.
I am obnoxious to each carping tongue who says my hand a needle better fits.
Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.
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.
Wisdom with an inheritance is good, but wisdom without an inheritance is better than an inheritance without wisdom.