"The best mirror is an old friend."
"Bees work for man, and yet they never bruise Their Master's flower, but leave it having done, As fair as ever and as fit to use; So both the flower doth stay and honey run."
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Source: George Herbert (1835). “The Works of George Herbert: Poems”, p.121
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