Man takes great pains to heap up riches, and they are like heaps of manure in the furrows of the field, good for nothing unless they be spread.
The seeds of first instructions are dropp'd into the deepest furrows.
If you can wear the hard times of your life as furrows on your brow, you can wear the good times as a twinkle in your eye.
Remember that thy heart will shed its pleasures as thine eye its tears, and both leave loathsome furrows.
My glass shall not persuade me I am old, So long as youth and thou are of one date; But when in thee time's furrows I behold, Then look I death my days should expiate.
We see time's furrows on another's brow, And death intrench'd, preparing his assault; How few themselves in that just mirror see!