It is easy in adversity to despise death; he has real fortitude who dares to live and be wretched.
I wont let a wife lead me to the altar. [I will not have a wife that shall be my master.]
Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality, and benevolence; the other from pride or fear, or from the fact that you cannot take your money with you to the other world.
Glory comes too late when we are nought but ashes.
A fisherman's walk: three steps and overboard.
Some good, some so-so, and lots plain bad: that's how a book of poems is made, my Friend.