You gave me the key to your heart, my love, then why did you make me knock?

So bright the tear in Beauty's eye, Love half regrets to kiss it dry.

It is when we think we lead that we are most led.

Pleasure's a sin, and sometimes sin's a pleasure.

They truly mourn, that mourn without a witness.

'Twas strange that one so young should thus concern His brain about the action of the sky; If you think 'twas philosophy that this did, I can't help thinking puberty assisted.

The lapse of ages changes all things - time - language - the earth - the bounds of the sea - the stars of the sky, and everything 'about, around, and underneath' man, except man himself, who has always been and always will be, an unlucky rascal. The infinite variety of lives conduct but to death, and the infinity of wishes lead but to disappointment. All the discoveries which have yet been made have multiplied little but existence.