A drop of ink may make a million think.
Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach Who please, the more because they preach in vain
I die but first I have possessed, And come what may, I have been blessed.
Perhaps the early grave Which men weep over may be meant to save.
Ecclesiastes said that "all is vanity," Most modern preachers say the same, or show it By their examples of true Christianity: In short, all know, or very short may know it.
Kill a man's family, and he may brook it, But keep your hands out of his breeches' pocket.
What is Death, so it be but glorious? 'Tis a sunset; And mortals may be happy to resemble The Gods but in decay.
Talent may be in time forgiven, but genius never
And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep.
Come what may, I have been blest.
I have had, and may have still, a thousand friends, as they are called, in life, who are like one's partners in the waltz of this world -not much remembered when the ball is over.
Shakespeare's name, you may depend on it, stands absurdly too high and will go down.
Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.