The fate of the worm refutes the pretended ethical teaching of the proverb, which assumes to illustrate the advantage of early rising and does so by showing how extremely dangerous it is.

Sorrow itself is not so hard to bear As the thought of sorrow coming. Airy ghosts, That work no harm, do terrify us more Than men in steel with bloody purposes. Death is not dreadful; 'tis the dread of death— We die whene'er we think of it!

The ring of a false coin is not more recognizable than that of a rhyme setting forth a false sorrow.

A man is known by the company his mind keeps.

It is the Lord's Day, and I do believe that cheerful hearts and faces are not unpleasant in His sight.

After a debauch of thunder-shower, the weather takes the pledge and signs it with a rainbow.

True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation.