Be brief, that the mind may catch thy precepts, and the more easily retain them.

The cook cares not a bit for toil, toil, if the fowl be plump and fat

Limbs of a dismembered poet.

It was a wine jar when the molding began: as the wheel runs round why does it turn out a water pitcher?

Mistakes are their own instructors

Death's dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.

Plant no other tree before the vine.