Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.

With spots quadrangular of diamond form, ensanguined hearts, clubs typical of strife, and spades, the emblems of untimely graves.

The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.

Just knows, and knows no more, her Bible true,- A truth the brilliant Frenchman never knew.

Blest be the art that can immortalize,--the art that baffles time's tyrannic claim to quench it.

Pernicious weed! whose scent the fair annoys, Unfriendly to society's chief joys: Thy worst effect is banishing for hours The sex whose presence civilizes ours.

A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.