A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

We are just statistics, born to consume resources.

And take back ill-polished stanzas to the anvil.

Life is largely a matter of expectation.

If matters go badly now, they will not always be so.

That I make poetry and give pleasure - if I give pleasure - are because of you.

Strength without judgment falls by its own weight.