And Life 's Enchanted Cup But Sparkles

The Reason That Adulation Is Not Displeasing Is That, Though Untrue, It Shows One To Be Of Consequence Enough, In One Way Or Other, To Induce People To Lie.

Perhaps The Early Grave Which Men Weep Over May Be Meant To Save.

The Law Of Heaven And Earth Is Life For Life.

But At Sixteen The Conscience Rarely Gnaws So Much, As When We Call Our Old Debts In At Sixty Years, And Draw The Accounts Of Evil, And Find A Deuced Balance With The Devil.

And Those Who Saw, It Did Surprise, Such Drops Could Fall From Human Eyes.