Your lines, I maintain it, are poetry, and good poetry.... Friendship... had I been so blest as to have met with you in time, might have led me - God of love only knows where.

A eunuch is a man who has had his work cut out for him.

Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And never brought to min?

The best laid plans take 40 years to complete.

Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing.

Nursing her wrath to keep it warm.--Robert Burns

And like a passing thought, she fled In light away.