Ready money is Aladdin's lamp |
Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean - roll! / Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain; / Man marks the earth with ruin - his control / Stops with the shore. |
Romances I never read like those I have seen. |
Romances paint at full length people's wooings, but only give a bust of marriages: but no one cares for matrimonial cooings |
Saint Peter sat by the celestial gate: / His keys were rusty, and the lock was dull. |
Science is but the exchange of ignorance for that which is another kind of ignorance. |
Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it. |
Shakespeare's name, you may depend on it, stands absolutely too - high and will go down |
She / Was married, charming, chaste, and twenty-three. |
She for him had given / Her all on earth, and more than all in heaven! |
She had consented to create again / That Adam, called `the happiest of men'. |
She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes |
She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes: Thus mellow'd to that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies |
Sighing that Nature formed but one such man, and broke the die. |
Sincerity may be humble, but she cannot be servile. |