Who gives an empire, by the gift defeats All end of giving; and procures contempt Instead of gratitude.

Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.

A strange alternative * * *Must women have a doctor or a dance?

Pygmies are pygmies still, though percht on Alps; And pyramids are pyramids in vales. Each man makes his own stature, builds himself. Virtue alone outbuilds the Pyramids; Her monuments shall last when Egypt's fall.

Think naught a trifle, though it small appear; Small stands the mountain, moments make the year, and trifles life.

The spider's most attenuated thread Is cord, is cable, to man's tender tie On earthly bliss; it breaks at every breeze.

Woes cluster. Rare are solitary woes; They love a train, they tread each other's heel.