For lo! the board with cups and spoons is crowned.The berries crackle, and the mill turns round ... At once they gratify their scent and taste.And frequent cups prolong the rich repast... Coffee (which makes the politician wise And see through all things with his half-shut eyes).

And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.

We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.

Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.

The lights and shades, whose well-accorded strife gives all the strength and color of our life.

For critics, as they are birds of prey, have ever a natural inclination to carrion.

Know, Nature's children all divide her care, The fur that warms a monarch warmed a bear.