Francis Quarles Quotes About Gold

• Whose gold is double with a careful hand, His cares are double.

  Francis Quarles

  Hands, Gold, Care

  Richard Crashaw, Francis Quarles, George Gilfillan (1857). “The Poetical Works of Richard Crashaw and Quarles' Emblems”, p.214

• What well-advised ear regards What earth can say? Thy words are gold, but thy rewards Are painted clay.

  Francis Quarles

  Gold, Clay, Ears

  Francis Quarles, William Walker Wilkins (1866). “Emblems, Divine and Moral: The School of the Heart ; And, Hieroglyphics of the Life of Man”, p.62

• Poor thieves in halters we behold;
  And great thieves in their chains of gold.

  Francis Quarles

  Gold, Thieves, Poor

• Gold is Caesar's treasure, man is God's; thy gold hath Caesar's image, and thou hast God's.

  Francis Quarles

  Men, Gold, Treasure

  Francis Quarles (1856). “Enchiridon: containing institutions divine, moral”, p.76

• What treasures here do Mammon's sons behold! Yet know that all that which glitters is not gold.

  Francis Quarles

  Son, Gold, Glitter

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