A jest often decides matters of importance more effectively and happily than seriousness.

Don't just put it off and think about it!

Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car.

The lofty pine is most easily brought low by the force of the wind, and the higher the tower the greater the fall thereof.

Limbs of a dismembered poet.

Often a purple patch or two is tacked on to a serious work of high promise, to give an effect of colour.

People hiss at me, but I applaud myself in my own house, and at the same time contemplate the money in my chest.