~ That famish'd people must be slowly nurst, And fed by spoonfuls, else they always burst. ~
~ There was a general whisper, toss, and wiggle, But etiquette forbade them all to giggle. ~
~ There's nothing in the world like etiquette In kingly chambers, or imperial halls, As also at the race and county balls. ~
~ A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress ~
~ Words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think. ~
~ In solitude, where we are least alone. ~
~ The busy have no time for tears. ~
~ I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone. ~
~ The busy have no time for tears. ~
~ I by no means rank poetry high in the scale of intelligence -this may look like affectation but it is my real opinion. It is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake ~
~ Adversity is the first path to truth; He who hath proved war, storm, or woman's rage, Whether his winters be eighteen or eighty, Has won the experience which is deemed so weighty ~
~ There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, Adversity is the first path to truth ~
~ Man being reasonable must get drunk; The best of life is but intoxication; Glory, the grape, love, gold - in these are sunk - The hopes of all men and of every nation ~
~ Smiles form the channel of a future tear. ~
~ Tempted fate will leave the loftiest star. ~
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