No, let the monarch's bags and others hold The flattering, mighty, nay, al-mighty gold..

People may have too much of a good thing: Full as an egg of wisdom thus I sing..

Every gift, though it be small, is in reality great if given with affection..

To wear long faces, just as if our Maker, The God of goodness, was an undertaker..

With vivid words your just conceptions grace, Much truth compressing in a narrow space; Then many shall peruse, but few complain, And envy frown, and….

The greatest men May ask a foolish question, now and then..

Thus every dog at last will have his day - He who this morning smiled, at night may sorrow; The grub today's a butterfly tomorrow..

A fellow in a market town, Most musical, cried razors up and down..

Care to our coffin adds a nail, no doubt, And every grin so merry draws one out..

Some one has said of a fine and honorable old age, that it was the childhood of immortality..

It is money makes the mare to trot..

Midas, they say, possessed the art of old; Of turning whatsoe'er he touch'd to gold; This modern statesmen can reverse with ease - Touch them with go….

What rage for fame attends both great and small! Better be damned than mentioned not at all..

O delicious kiss, Why thou so sudden art gone? Lost in the moment thou art won?.

The turnpike road to people's hearts, I find, Lies through their mouths or I mistake mankind..

Enjoy thy stream, O harmless fish; And when an angler for his dish, Through gluttony's vile sin, Attempts, the wretch, to pull thee out, God give the….