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• Have hung My dank and dropping weeds To the stern god of sea.
  -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Translation of Horace, Book i, Ode 5...
• Give what thou canst, without Thee we are poor; And with Thee rich, take what Thou wilt away.
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Task, Book v, The Winter Morning Walk, Line 905...
• Praise enough To fill the ambition of a private man, That Chatham's language was his mother tongue.
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Task, Book ii, The Timepiece, Line 235...
• Some must be great. Great offices will have Great talents.
  And God gives to every man The virtue, temper, understanding, taste, That lifts him into life, and lets him fall Just in the niche he was ordain'd to fill....
• The only way for a rich man to be healthy is, by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.
  -- Sir William Temple...
• The difference between a rich man and a poor man is thi
  he former eats when he pleases, the latter when he can get it. -- Sir Walter Raleigh...
• Hence, ye profane! I hate ye all, Both the great vulgar and the small.
  -- Abraham Cowley (1618-1667) -- Horace, Book iii, Ode 1...
• He sees that this great roundabout The world, with all its motley rout, Church, army, physic, law, Its customs and its businesses, Is no concern at all of his, And says--what says he?
  Caw. -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Jackdaw, (Translation from Vincent Bourne)...
• Happy the man, and happy he alone, He who can call to-day his ow
  He who, secure within, can say, To-morrow, do thy worst, for I have liv'd to-day....