It is a good thing to read books, and need not be a bad thing to write them, but in any case, it is a pious thing to collect them..

Vanitas vanitatum has rung in the ears Of gentle and simple for thousands of years; The wail still is heard, yet its notes never scare Either simple ….

The world's as ugly as sin, And almost as delightful..

I recollect a nurse called Ann, Who carried me about the grass, And one fine day a fine young man Came up and kissed the pretty lass. She did not mak….

I believe that nothing completely satisfies an imaginative writer but copious and continuous draughts of unmitigated praise, always provided it is ac….

Remember, cobbler, to keep to your leather..

Lightly I sped when hope was high And youth beguiled the chase,-- I follow, follow still: But I Shall never see her face..