I had a dream, which was not at all a dream.

A man must serve his time to every trade, Save censure-critics all are ready made. Take hackney'd jokes from Miller, got by rote With just enough learning to misquote.

A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

And dreams in their development have breath, And tears, and tortures, and the touch of joy; They have a weight upon our waking thoughts, They take a weight from off our waking toils, They do divide our being.

Exhausting thought, And hiving wisdom with each studious year.

Man marks the earth with ruin - his control stops with the shore.

A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands.