I resolved that, like the sun, as long as my day lasted, I would look on the bright side of everything.

Coquetry is the champagne of love.

There are three things which the public will always clamour for, sooner or later; namely: novelty, novelty, novelty.

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!

Well for the drones of the social hive that there are bees of an industrious turn, willing, for an infinitesimal share of the honey, to undertake the labor of its fabrication.

Ben Battle was a soldier bold, and used to war's alarms, But a cannon-ball took off his legs, so he laid down his arms.