Oh! happy are the apples when the south winds blow.

Come and trip it as ye go, On the light fantastic toe.

Fortune favors the bold, but abandons the timid.

The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above.

Oh, herbaceous treat! 'Twould tempt the dying anchorite to eat; Back to the world he'd turn his fleeting soul, And plunge his fingers in the salad bowl; Serenely full the epicure would say, "Fate cannot harm me,--I have dined to-day."

Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky, The dew shall weep thy fall to-night; For thou must die.

Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.

You cannot run with the hare and hunt with the hounds.

What beck'ning ghost along the moonlight shade Invites my steps, and points to yonder glade?

To stumble twice against the same stone is a proverbial disgrace.

There is a need to find and sing our own song, to stretch our limbs and shake them in a dance so wild that nothing can roost there, that stirs the yearning for solitary voyage.

The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter; the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given the bone and sinew to literature, summer the tissues and the blood.

The closed door and the sealed lips are prerequisites to tyranny.

A fly sat on the chariot wheel And said "what a dust I raise."

Democracy is the art of running the circus from the monkey cage.

Civium in moribus rei publicae salus

To isolate mathematics from the practical demands of the sciences is to invite the sterility of a cow shut away from the bulls.

A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ.