The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.
Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
When there is enough to eat for eight, there is plenty for ten.
You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.
Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.
Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.