Chill December brings the sleet, Blazing fire, and Christmas treat.

Hot July brings cooling showers, Apricots and gillyflowers.

January brings the snow, makes our feet and fingers glow.

June brings tulips, lilies, roses, Fills the children's hands with posies.

Dull November brings the blast, Then the leaves are whirling fast.

April brings the primrose sweet, / Scatters daisies at our feet.

The Poplar grows up straight and tall, The Pear-tree spreads along the wall

there is nothing so uncertain and slippery as fact.

The desire to be the object of public attention is weak, but the excessive dread of it is but a form of vanity and over-self-contemplativeness.

February brings the rain, Thaws the frozen lake again.

Life is the steam of the corporeal engine; the soul is the engineer who makes use of the steam-quickened engine.

I've never been in love. I've dreamt of it day and night, but my heart is like a fine piano no one can play because the key is lost.

How could you cleanse yourself if you couldn’t forget?

They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.

I am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel were felt by the whole human race, there would not be one cheerful face left on earth.

Style is primarily a matter of instinct.

The best way to get your point across is to entertain.

Presidents cannot always kick evil-minded persons out of the front door. Such persons are often selected by the electors to represent them.

I'd love to have been born into a wealthy family. I might have turned out even more marvellous than I am now.

Know thyself means this, that you get acquainted with what you know, and what you can do.

The drive for control, or the perception thereof, is truly the strongest force in human nature.