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

My Son, these maxims make a rule An lump them ay thegither: The Rigid Righteous is a fool, The Rigid Wise anither.

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.

Burns' Hog-Weighing Method: (1) Get a perfectly symmetrical plank and balance it across a sawhorse. (2) Put the hog on one end of the plank. (3) Pile rocks on the other end until the plank is again perfectly balanced. (4) Carefully guess the weight of the rocks.

Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.

Some wee short hour ayont the twal.

If there's another world, he lives in bliss; if there is none, he made the best of this.