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• But as some muskets so contrive it As oft to miss the mark they drive at, And though well aimed at duck or plover, Bear wide, and kick their owners over.
  -- John Trumbull (1750-1831) -- McFingal, Canto i, Line 93...
• No man e'er felt the halter draw, With good opinion of the law.
  -- John Trumbull (1750-1831) -- McFingal, Canto iii, Line 489...
• As though there were a tie And obligation to posterity.
  We get them, bear them, breed, and nurse: What has posterity done for us....
• For truth has such a face and such a mien, As to be lov'd needs only to be seen.
  -- John Dryden (1631-1700) -- The Hind and the Panther, Part i, Line 33...
• Though I am always in haste, but never in a hurry.
  -- John Wesley (1703-1791) -- Letters (1831), December 10, 1777...
• I'm afraid I've finally become what I had merely intended to seem. -- Wilhelm von Humboldt, 1831
• Poor pensioner on the bounties of an hour.
  -- Edward Young (1684-1765) -- Night Thoughts, Night i, Line 67...
• Oh, a dainty plant is the ivy green, That creepeth o'er ruins old!
  Of right choice food are his meals, I ween, In his cell so lone and cold....
• O, woe is me, To have seen what I have seen, see what I see!
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Hamlet -- Act iii, Sc. 1...