A good local pub has much in common with a church, except that a pub is warmer, and there's more conversation.

If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they'd immediately go out.

The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does.

Some say that happiness is not good for mortals, & they ought to be answered that sorrow is not fit for immortals & is utterly useless to any one; a blight never does good to a tree, & if a blight kill not a tree but it still bear fruit, let none say that the fruit was in consequence of the blight.

Innocence dwells with Wisdom, but never with ignorance.

The Angel that presided o'er my birth Said, 'Little creature, formed of joy and mirth, Go love without the help of any thing on earth'.

Little fly, thy summer's play My thoughtless hand has brushed away. Am not I a fly like thee? Or art not thou a man like me? For I dance and drink and sing, Till some blind hand shall brush my wing!