We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.

How readily we wish time spent revoked, that we might try the ground again where once--through inexperience, as we now perceive--we missed that happiness we might have found!

To impute our recovery to medicine, and to carry our view no further, is to rob God of His honor, and is saying in effect that He has parted with the keys of life and death, and, by giving to a drug the power to heal us, has placed our lives out of His own reach.

Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, 'tis being flayed alive.

The solemn fop; significant and budge; A fool with judges, amongst fools a judge

... she, that will with kittens jest, Should bear a kitten's joke.

Ages elapsed ere Homer's lamp appear'd, And ages ere the Mantuan swan was heard: To carry nature lengths unknown before, To give a Milton birth, ask'd ages more.