Their sighing, canting, grace-proud faces, their three-mile prayers, and half-mile graces.

Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing.

Pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed.

Now's the day and now's the hour.

How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.

A women can make an average man great, and a great man average.

All my fears and cares are of this world; if there is another, an honest man has nothing to fear from it.