"The best mirror is an old friend."
"Get to live; Then live, and use it; else, it is not true That thou hast gotten. Surely use alone Makes money not a contemptible stone."
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Source: George Herbert (1824). “Herbert's Poems and Country Parson. A new edition; with the life of the author; from Izaak Walton”, p.60
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