Bend the willow while it is young.

ANON.

The Tempest. iii, 1.

There be some sports are painful.
Childhood is the sleep of reason.
Take this reward; make merry, man.

ROUSSEAU.

O well done! I commend your pains.
Brave conquerors,-for so you are.

Macbeth. iv, I.

Love's Labour 's Lost. i, I.

That unlettered small-knowing soul.

Love's Labour 's Lost. i, I.

ANON.

There is not a moment without some duty.

Grasp no more than thy hand will hold,
Has never heard the sanguinary yell?

COWPER, The Task. iii, 335

Certain issue strokes must arbitrate.

Macbeth. v, 4.

Towering in confidence of twenty-one.
SAMUEL JOHNSON, Letter to Bennet Langton.

Jan., 1758.

In books, or work, or healthful play.

WATTS, Divine Songs.

ANON.

He who begins many things finishes few.
Then may I set the world on wheels.

Two Gentlemen of Verona. iii, 1.

Diligence is the mother of Good Luck.

Being nimble footed he hath outrun us.

FRANKLIN.

Two Gentlemen of Verona. v, 3.

As the twig is bent, the twig will grow.

ANON.

Good fighting was before good writing.

MARSTON, Mountebank's Masque.

An idle brain is the devil's workshop.

From the German.

A good man dies when a boy goes wrong.
A health to all that shot and miss'd.

ANON.

Taming of the Shrew. v, 2.

Experience is the best of schoolmasters.

He sleeps by day more than the wild-cat.

Old Proverb.

Merchant of Venice. ii, 5, 1. 47.

When the brisk minor pants for twenty-one.

POPE, Epistle I. Bk. I, 1. 38.
Pericles. ii, 3.

To whom this wreath of victory I give.

An idle man is the devil's playfellow.
In single opposition, hand to hand.

ANON.

King Henry IV. Pt. I, i, 3.

The rich advantage of good exercise.

The wise for cure on exercise depend.

King John. iv, 2.

DRYDEN, Epistle to John Dryden.

Is not parchment made of sheepskins?
Lucky men are as rare as white crows.

Some are born to lift and some to lean.

Self conceit is harder to cure than cancer.

We are the Jasons, we have won the fleece.

Merchant of Venice. iii, 2.

And both were young, and one was beautiful.

BYRON, The Dream. St. 2.

The force of his own merit makes his way.

King Henry VIII. i, I.

A lazy boy and a warm bed are hard to part.
This monument of victory will I bear.

ANON.

King Henry VI. Pt. II, iv, 3.

A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.
Match to match I have encounter'd him.

GARFIELD.

King Henry VI. Pt. II, v, 2.

A boy untaught will be taught by the devil.

We will our youth lead on to higher fields.

ANON.

King Henry IV. Pt. II, iv, 4.

His studie was but litel on the Bible.

CHAUCER, Canterbury Tales.

The hour is fixed; the match is made.

Diamond me no diamonds! prize me no prizes.

TENNYSON, Idylls of the King. Canto ii, st. 2.

A schoolboy's tale, the wonder of an hour!

BYRON, Childe Harold. Canto ii, st. 2.

As you make your bed so must you lie on it.

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

ANON.

Merchant of Venice. ii, 2.

Her hardy face repels the tanning wind.

THOMAS PARNELL, Health.

So doth the greater victory dim the less.

Merchant of Venice. v, I.

The energetic man and his bed are soon parted.

The wheel has come full circle, I am here.

ANON.

King Lear. v, 3.

With just enough of learning to misquote.

BYRON, English Bards, 1. 66.

Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.

Julius Cæsar. iii, 2.

If youth only knew; if old age only could.

I'll catch it ere it come to the ground.

It is a conquest for a prince to boast of.

ANON.

Macbeth. iii, 5.

King Henry IV. Pt. I, i, 1. He that can work is a born king of something.

Let me be umpire in this doubtful strife.

CARLYLE.

King Henry VI. Pt. I, iv, I.

Advance in learning as you advance in life.
If thou love learning thou shalt be learned.

ANON.

ISOCRATES.

ANON.

A young twig is easier to twist than an old one.