I Would Rather Have A Plain Down-right

God Wisheth None Should Wreck On A Strange Shelf: To Him Man's Dearer Than To Himself.

Very Few Men Are Wise By Their Own Council, Or Learned By Their Own Teaching. For He That Was Only Taught By Himself, Had A Fool For A Master.

To The Old, Long Life And Treasure; To The Young, All Health And Pleasure.

Custom Is The Most Certain Mistress Of Language, As The Public Stamp Makes The Current Money.

Nor Use Too Swelling, Or Ill-sounded Words . . . .