A Bad Year And A Bad Month

The Poet May Say Or Sing, Not As Things Were, But As They Ought To Have Been; But The Historian Must Pen Them, Not As They Ought To Have Been, But As They Really Were.

One Of The Effects Of Fear Is To Disturb The Senses And Cause Things To Appear Other Than What They Are.

The Absent Feel And Fear Every Ill.

Troubles Take Wing For The Man Who Can Sing.

By God And Upon My Conscience, Said The Devil, I Never Observed It, For My Mind Is Occupied With So Many Different Things That I Was Forgetting The Main Thing I Came About. This Demon Must Be An Honest Fellow And A Good Christian, Said Sancho; For If He Wasn't He Wouldn't Swear By God And His Conscience; I Feel Sure Now There Must Be Good Souls Even In Hell Itself.