"Melancholy sees the worst of things,—things as they may be, and not as they are. It looks upon a beautiful face, and …"

"Give the people contests they win by remembering the words to more popular songs or the names of state capitals or ho…"

"Avoid melancholy with all your might. It hurts the service of God more than sin. Satan takes less pleasure in sin tha…"

"All my griefs to this are jolly, Naught so damn'd as melancholy."

"All my joys to this are folly, Naught so sweet as melancholy."

"As melancholy as an unbraced drum."

""Most musical, most melancholy" bird! A melancholy bird! Oh! idle thought! In nature there is nothing melancholy. But…"

"With eyes upraised, as one inspired, Pale Melancholy sate retired; And, from her wild, sequester'd seat, In notes by …"

"Melancholy, I think, is a sort of default vagueness, a get-out clause, a smothering lack of focus."

"To the pure soul by Fancy's fire refined, Ah, what is mirth but turbulence unholy, When with the charm compared of he…"