No longer would we imprison thee though thou art all gentleness and would chat and jest with us by the hour. - Samuel Laman Blanchard

Sooth't were a pleasant life to lead,
With nothing in the world to do
But just to blow a shepherd's reed,
The silent season thro'
And just to drive a flock to feed,—
Sheep—quiet, fond and few!

We insist on self-roasting, by slow degrees, and at regular intervals, to show our contempt for experience, and to develop our chief virtue, which is obstinacy.

What if two negatives make an affirmative ...does it follow that two nobodies shall be some body?