Robert Herrick Quote

Let wealth come in by comely thrift,
And not by any sordid shift;
'T is haste
Makes waste;
Extremes have still their fault.
Who gripes too hard the dry and slipp'ry sand,
Holds none at all, or little, in his hand.

Select poems from the Hesperides, with occasional remarks by J.N. (ed. 1810)