O, ’tis a parlous boy;
  Bold, quick, ingenious, forward, capable;
  He is all the mother’s from the top to toe.
Richard III., Act iii.  Sc. 1.  SHAKESPEARE.

Thou wilt scarce be a man before thy mother. Love’s Cure, Act ii.  Sc. 2.  BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER.

But strive still to be a man before your mother. Motto of No.  III.  Connoisseur.  W. COWPER.

CARE.

  When one is past, another care we have;
  Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave.
Sorrows Succeed.  R. HERRICK.

  Old Care has a mortgage on every estate,
  And that’s what you pay for the wealth that you get.
Gifts of the Gods.  J.G.  SAXE.

  O polished perturbation! golden care! 
  That keepest the ports of slumber open wide
  To many a watchful night!
K.  Henry IV., Pt.  II.  Act iv.  Sc. 5.  SHAKESPEARE.

  Let one unceasing, earnest prayer
  Be, too, for light,—­for strength to bear
  Our portion of the weight of care,
  That crushes into dumb despair
      One half the human race.
The Goblet of Life.  H.W.  LONGFELLOW.

  Let the world slide, let the world go: 
  A fig for care, and a fig for woe! 
  If I can’t pay, why I can owe,
  And death makes equal the high and low.
Be Merry Friends.  J. HEYWOOD.

Begone, dull Care, I prithee begone from me;
Begone, dull Care, thou and I shall never agree.
Begone, Old Care.  PLAYFORD’S Musical Companion.

CHANCE.

                      That power
  Which erring men call Chance.
Comus.  MILTON.

Chance will not do the work—­Chance sends the breeze;
But if the pilot slumber at the helm,
The very wind that wafts us towards the port
May dash us on the shelves.—­The steersman’s part is vigilance,
Blow it or rough or smooth.
Fortunes of Nigel.  SIR w.  SCOTT.

  I shall show the cinders of my spirits
  Through the ashes of my chance.
Antony and Cleopatra, Act v. Sc. 2.  SHAKESPEARE.

  And grasps the skirts of happy chance. 
  And breasts the blows of circumstance.
In Memoriam, LXIII.  A. TENNYSON.

  You’ll see that, since our fate is ruled by chance,
    Each man, unknowing, great,
  Should frame life so that at some future hour
    Fact and his dreamings meet.
To His Orphan Grandchildren.  V. HUGO.

CHANGE.

  Weep not that the world changes—­did it keep
  A stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.
Mutation.  W.C.  BRYANT.

  Manners with fortunes, humors turn with climes,
  Tenets with books, and principles with times.
Moral Essays, Epistle I. Pt.  II.  A. POPE.