Would you be well receiv’d where’er you go, …
Benjamin Franklin
XI Mon. January [1733] hath xxxi days. …
PRECEPT I. …
Wedlock, as old Men note, hath likened been, …
Read much; the Mind, which never can be still, …
Men drop so fast, ere Life’s mid Stage we tread, …
BUSINESS, thou Plague and Pleasure of my Life, …
Studious of Ease, and fond of humble Things, …
This World’s an Inn, all Travellers are we; …
Some have learnt many Tricks of sly Evasion, …
Man’s rich with little, were his Judgment true, …