You own a watch the invention of the mind, though for a single motion 'tis designed, as well as that which is with greater thought with various springs, for various motions wrought.
A kiss, when all is said, what is it? A rosy dot placed on the 'I' in loving; Tis a secret told to the mouth instead of to the ear.
We talk of communing with Nature, but 'tis with ourselves we commune... Nature furnishes the conditions - the solitude - and the soul furnishes the entertainment.
I hate the noise and hurry inseparable from great Estates and Titles, and look upon both as blessings that ought only to be given to fools, for 'Tis only to them that they are blessings.
'Tis said that wrath is the last thing in a man to grow old.
Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.
'Tis hard to comprehend how one man can come to be master of many, equal to himself in right, unless it be by consent or by force.
Oh, 'tis love, 'tis love that makes the world go round.
'Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
For tis not in mere death that men die most.
'Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark our coming, and look brighter when we come.
For God's sake build not your faith upon Tradition, 'tis as rotten as a rotten Post.
'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.
Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.