Nay, I am the very pink of courtesy.
We will all laugh at gilded butterflies.
Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.
Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good; a shining gloss that fadeth suddenly; a flower that dies when it begins to bud; a doubtful good, a gloss, a glass, a flower, lost, faded, broken, dead within an hour.
Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.