Better to be safe than sorry..

Sure the shovel and tongs To each other belongs..

The neck on which diamonds might have worthily sparkled, will look less tempting when the biting winter has hung icicles there for gems..

For dhrames always go by conthraries, my dear..

I'll seek a four leaved shamrock in all thy fairy dells, And if I find the charmed leaves, oh, how I'll weave my spells!.

A baby was sleeping, Its mother was weeping..

To return after long years of painful absence to some place which has been the scene of our former joys, and whence the force of circumstance, and no….

When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen. But if you have not a pen, I suppose you must scr….

Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise..

For a ballad's a thing you expect to find lies in..

What is wine? It is the grape present in another form; its essence is there, though the fruit which produced it grew thousands of miles away, and per….

Sure my love is all crostLike a bud in the frostAnd there's no use at all in my going to bed,For 't is dhrames and not slape that comes into my head!.

Too little is it considered, while we gaze on aristocratic beauty, how much good food, soft lying, warm wrapping, ease of mind, have to do with the a….

My hearing has suffered seriously; just now I am obliged to have the assistance of an ear trumpet. Think of that, my beauty! - There 's a state for y….

How many chapters have been written about love verses - and how many more might be written! - might, would, could, should, or ought to be written! - ….

Where's the snow That fell the year that's fled--where's the snow?.

There's luck in odd numbers..

There was a place in childhood that I remember well, And there a voice of sweetest tone bright fairy tales did tell..

Come live in my heart, and pay no rent..

Reproof on her lip, but a smile in her eye..