The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd

The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.

A man of business may talk of philosophy; a man who has none may practice it.

Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

Thus let me live, unseen, unknown, Thus unlamented let me die, Steal from the world, and not a stone Tell where I lie.

Vice is a monster of so frightful mien As to be hated needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.

Fickle Fortune reigns, and, undiscerning, scatters crowns and chains.