A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power. - George Meredith

It's past parsons to console us:
No, nor no doctor fetch for me:
I can die without my bolus;
Two of a trade, lass, never agree!
Parson and Doctor!--don't they love rarely
Fighting the devil in other men's fields!
Stand up yourself and match him fairly:
Then see how the rascal yields!

In...the book of Egoism, it is written, possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity.

On a starred night Prince Lucifer uprose.
Tired of his dark dominion swung the fiend.