It is sweet to let the mind unbend on occasion.

In neglected fields the fern grows, which must be cleared out by fire.

There is a fault common to all singers. When they're among friends and are asked to sing they don't want to, and when they're not asked to sing they never stop.

The changing year's successive plan Proclaims mortality to man.

What does drunkenness accomplish? It discloses secrets, it ratifies hopes, and urges even the unarmed to battle.

He has carried every point, who has combined that which is useful with that which is agreeable.

The body, enervated by the excesses of the preceding day, weighs down and prostates the mind also.