To love playthings well as a child, to lead an adventurous and honorable youth, and to settle when the time arrives, into a green and smiling age, is to be a good artis en life and deserve well of yourself and your neighbor.

If it comes to a swinging, swing all, say I.

Sing a song of seasons; something bright in all, flowers in the summer, fires in the fall.

It takes hard writing to make easy reading.

The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.

Bright is the ring of words When the right man rings them.

You must suffer me to go my own dark way.