The heart ran o'er With silent worship of the great of old!-- The dead, but sceptred sovereigns, who still rule Our spirits from their urns.

Self praise is no praise at all.

America is a model of force and freedom and moderation - with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.

Let us have wine and woman, mirth and laughter, Sermons and soda water the day after. Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; The best of life is but intoxication: Glory, the grape, love, gold, in these are sunk The hopes of all men, and of every nation; Without their sap, how branchless were the trunk Of life's strange tree, so fruitful on occasion: But to return--Get very drunk; and when You wake with head-ache, you shall see what then.

To chase the glowing hours with flying feet.

Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.

Sighing that Nature formed but one such man, and broke the die.