He scratched his ear, the infallible resource to which embarrassed people have recourse.

And the small ripple spilt upon the beach Scarcely o'erpass'd the cream of your champagne, When o'er the brim the sparkling bumpers reach, That spring-dew of the spirit! the heart's rain! Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach Who please,—the more because they preach in vain,— Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, Sermons and soda-water the day after.

Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away.

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

I have simplified my politics into an utter detestation of all existing governments; and, as it is the shortest and most agreeable and summary feeling imaginable, the first moment of an universal republic would convert me into an advocate for single and uncontradicted despotism. The fact is, riches are power, and poverty is slavery all over the earth, and one sort of establishment is no better, nor worse, for a people than another.

Think'st thou existence doth depend on time? It doth; but actions are our epochs.

When we two parted In silence and tears, Half broken-hearted, To sever for years.