"Give me to live with Love alone And let the world go dine and dress; For Love hath lowly haunts... If life's a flower…"

"No longer would we imprison thee though thou art all gentleness and would chat and jest with us by the hour."

"It is an odd mode of diminishing one's own weakness to ask a friend to lend us the equal force of his."

"What if two negatives make an affirmative ...does it follow that two nobodies shall be some body?"

"Two hats, we grant, may be better than one; yet is one enough at a time. It is so with the head. It should be sole an…"

"Wherever two or three are gathered together, one, at least, has left his head at home in his night-cap, or hung it up…"

"As with the tender juvenile, who sets light to his frock, so with the sweet senior, who sets his fortunes on fire. Ev…"

"We insist on self-roasting, by slow degrees, and at regular intervals, to show our contempt for experience, and to de…"

"Forewarned, forearmed, is sheer nonsense. Who is so indefatigable a scribbler as your abundantly damned author? Which…"

"Sooth't were a pleasant life to lead, With nothing in the world to do But just to blow a shepherd's reed, The silent …"