Don't you remember, sweet Alice, Ben Bolt? Sweet Alice, whose hair was so brown; Who wept with delight when you gave her a smile, And trembl'd with fear at your frown!

Besides, they always smell of bread and butter.

There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

Oft expectation fails, and most oft there Where most it promises. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act ii. Sc. 1.

God preaches, a noted clergyman, And the sermon is never long; So instead of getting to heaven at last, I'm going all along.

A place for everything, everything in its place.

A famous man is Robin Hood The English ballad-singer's joy.

Skilled labor teaches something not to be found in books or colleges.

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.

Some people resemble ballads which are only sung for a certain time.

A man said to the universe: "Sir, I exist!" "However," replied the universe, That fact has not created in me a sense of obligation."

No one ever excused his way to success.

To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.

Out of our quarrels with others we make rhetoric. Out of our quarrels with ourselves we make poetry.

Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits the all.

I am the Roman Emperor, and am above grammar.

A retentive memory is a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.

The spirit that I have seen May be a devil, and the devil hath power T' assume a pleasing shape, yea, and perhaps Out of my weakness and my melancholy, As he is very potent with such spirits, Abuses me to damn me.

The journey is the reward.

Grant that the old Adam in these persons may be so buried, that the new man may be raised up in them.