Some minds improve by travel, others, rather, resemble copper wire, or brass, which get the narrower by going farther.
O men with sisters dear, O men with mothers and wives, It is not linen you 're wearing out, But human creatures' lives!
For my part, getting up seems not so easy By half as lying.
Coquetry is the champagne of love.
My books kept me from the ring, the dog-pit, the tavern, and the saloon.
How bravely Autumn paints upon the sky The gorgeous fame of Summer which is fled!