Be hypocritical, be cautious, be not what you seem but always what you see.

Like to the apples on the Dead Sea's shore, All ashes to the taste.

What opposite discoveries we have seen! (Signs of true genius, and of empty pockets.) One makes new noses, one a guillotine, One breaks your bones, one sets them in their sockets; But vaccination certainly has been A kind antithesis to Congreve's rockets.

In the desert a fountain is springing, In the wide waste there still is a tree, And a bird in the solitude singing, Which speaks to my spirit of thee

Nothing so difficult as a beginning In poesy, unless perhaps the end.

Just as old age is creeping on space, And clouds come o'er the sunset of our day, They kindly leave us, though not quite alone, But in good company--the gout or stone.

I should, many a good day, have blown my brains out, but for the recollection that it would have given pleasure to my mother-in-law.