James Wood, comp. Dictionary of Quotations. 1899.

Aaron Hill

Gently, gently touch a nettle, / And it stings you for your pains; / Grasp it like a man of mettle, / And it soft as silk remains.

Man is the circled oak, woman the ivy.

Order, thou eye of action.

Reason gains all men by compelling none.

There is no merit where there is no trial; and, till experience stamps the mark of strength, cowards may pass for heroes, faith for falsehood.

With women worth the being won, / The softest lover ever best succeeds.

Youth is ever apt to judge in haste, and lose the medium in the wild extreme.