A dog will never forget the crumb thou gavest him, though thou mayst afterwards throw a hundred stones at his head.
But thou art fair, and at thy birth, dear boy, Nature and Fortune join'd to make thee great: Of Nature's gifts thou mayst with lilies boast, And with the half-blown rose; but Fortune, O!
There is thy gold, worse poison to men's souls, Doing more murder in this loathsome world, Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell.
Have therefore zeal to better thyself and then mayst thou have zeal to thy neighbor.
When thou hast profited so much that thou respectest even thyself, thou mayst let go thy tutor.
In a dream thou mayst live a lifetime, and all be forgotten in the morning: Even such is life, and so soon perisheth its memory.
Take physic, pomp; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, That thou mayst shake the superflux to them And show the heavens more just.
If thou dost seek to have what thou dost hide, By self-example mayst thou be denied.
Fear not to be nothing that thou mayst be all.
