Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.
Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.
Talent may be in time forgiven, but genius never
Man is in part divine, A troubled stream from a pure source.
The reason that adulation is not displeasing is that, though untrue, it shows one to be of consequence enough, in one way or other, to induce people to lie.
I am the very slave of circumstance And impulse -- borne away with every breath!