Beware the deadly fumes of that insane elation Which rises from the cup of mad impiety, And go, get drunk with that divine intoxication Which is more sober far than all sobriety.

A blue eye is a true eye; Mysterious is a dark one, Which flashes like a spark sun! A black eye is the best one.

Cunning is the dwarf of wisdom.

To appreciate and use correctly a valuable maxim requires a genius; a vital appropriating exercise of mind closely allied to that which first created it.

Heart's-ease is a flower which blooms from the grave of desire.

The flower which we do not pluck is the only one which never loses its beauty or its fragrance.

A crowd always thinks with its sympathy, never with its reason.