When friends are at your hearthside met, Sweet courtesy has done its most If you have made each guest forget That he himself is not the host.

The ocean moans over dead men's bones.

True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation.

Dialect tempered with slang is an admirable medium of communication between persons who have nothing to say and persons who would not care for anything properly said.

I beg you come tonight and dine A welcome waits you and sound wine The Roederer chilly to a charm As Juno's breasts the claret warm.

After a debauch of thunder-shower, the weather takes the pledge and signs it with a rainbow.

A man is known by the company his mind keeps.