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

Drink is the feast of reason and the flow of soul.

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

The most positive men are the most credulous, since they most believe themselves, and advise most with their falsest flatterer and worst enemy--their own self-love.

Some people are commended for a giddy kind of good-humor, which is as much a virtue as drunkenness.

Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well.

Is that a birthday? 'tis, alas! too clear; 'Tis but the funeral of the former year.