And wrinkles, the damned democrats, won't flatter.

Life is too short for chess.

Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil.

Here's a sigh to those who love me,And a smile to those who hate;And, whatever sky's above me,Here's a heart for every fate.

I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.

Absence - that common cure of love.

Champagne with its foaming whirls/As white as Cleopatra's pearls.