Dame Fortune, like most others of the female sex, is generally most indulgent to the nimble-mettled blockheads.

False as the adulterate promises of favorites in power when poor men court them.

Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.

Honesty needs no disguise nor ornament; be plain.

Dame Fortune, like most others of the female sex, is generally most indulgent to the nimble-mettled blockheads.

Shining through tears, like April suns in showers, that labor to overcome the cloud that loads em.

No flattery, boy! an honest man cannot live by it; it is a little, sneaking art, which knaves use to cajole and soften fools withal.