Stir the eggnog, lift the toddy, Happy New Year everybody.

Please to put a nickel, please to put a dime. How petitions trickle in at Christmas time!

What in me is pure conviction is simple prejudice in you.

A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.

Let others, worn with living / And living's aftermath, / Take Sleep to heal the heart's distress, / Take Love to be their comfortress, / Take Song or Food or Fancy Dress, / But I shall take a Bath.

A mother's hardest to forgive. Life is the fruit she longs to hand you Ripe on a plate. And while you live, Relentlessly she understands you.

Mere wealth, I am above it, / It is the reputation wide, / The playwright's pomp, the poet's pride / That eagerly I covet.