Tis blessed to bestow, and yet, Could we bestow the gifts we get, And keep the ones we give away, How happy were our Christmas day!

Advice is one of those things it is far more blessed to give than to receive.

To make a library it takes two volumes And a fire. Two volumes and a fire, And interest. The interest alone will do If logs are few.

A guilty conscience is the mother of invention

Of two evils, choose the prettier

Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife; This simple boon I beg of Fate - A thousand years of Middle Life