"Bringing dark things into daylight, solving doubts that vex the mind,
Like an open eye is Wisdom—he that hath her not is blind."
"Childless art thou? dead thy children? leaving thee to want and doole?
Less thy misery than his is, who lives father to a fool."
"One wise son makes glad his father, forty fools avail him not:
One moon silvers all that darkness which the silly stars did dot."
"Ease and health, obeisant children, wisdom, and a fair-voiced wife—
Thus, great King! are counted up the five felicities of life."
"For the son the sire is honoured; though the bow-cane bendeth true,
Let the strained string crack in using, and what service shall it do?"
"That which will not be, will not be—and what is to be, will be:
Why not drink this easy physic, antidote of misery?"
"Nay! but faint not, idly sighing, 'Destiny is mightiest,'
Sesamum holds oil in plenty, but it yieldeth none unpressed."
"Ah! it is the Coward's babble, 'Fortune taketh, Fortune gave;'
Fortune! rate her like a master, and she serves thee like a slave."
"Two-fold is the life we live in—Fate and Will together run:
Two wheels bear life's chariot onward—Will it move on only one?"