"Hope! thou nurse of young desire."

"There was a jolly miller once, Lived on the river Dee; He worked and sung from morn till night: No lark more blithe t…"

"And this the burden of his song Forever used to be,— I care for nobody, no, not I, If no one cares for me."

"Young fellows will be young fellows."

"'Tis a sure sign work goes on merrily, when folks sing at it."

"By candle-light nobody would have taken you for above five-and-twenty."

"Fine feathers, they say, make fine birds."

"Ay, do despise me! I'm the prouder for it; I like to be despised."

"Health is the greatest of all possessions; a pale cobbler is better than a sick king."

"When I from life's unrest had earned the grace Of utter ease beside a quiet stream; When all that was had mingled in …"