Repartee is the soul of conversation.
Swift was the race, but short the time to run.
But Shakespeare's magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.
Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpass'd; The next, in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go; To make a third, she join'd the former two.
Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative. Life is an adventure in forgiveness.