[Armenian] is a rich language, however, and would amply repay any one the trouble of learning it.

To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at all.

Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.

This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall; Lord of himself, though not of lands, And leaving nothing, yet hath all.

Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away; A single laugh demolish'd the right arm Of his own country.

I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

But every fool describes, in these bright days, His wondrous journey to some foreign court, And spawns his quarto, and demands your praise,-- Death to his publisher, to him 'tis sport.