Friendship's the wine of life.
We push time from us, and we wish him back; * * * * * * Life we think long and short; death seek and shun.
'T is impious in a good man to be sad.
Born Originals, how comes it to pass that we die Copies?
Some wits, too, like oracles, deal in ambiguities, but not with equal success; for though ambiguities are the first excellence of an imposter, they are the last of a wit.
Beautiful as sweet, And young as beautiful, and soft as young, And gay as soft, and innocent as gay!