In Short, Whoever You May Be, To

After Many Unhappy Experiments In The Direction Of An Ideal Republic, It Was Found That What May Be Described As A Despotism Tempered By Dynamite Provides, On The Whole, The Most Satisfactory Description Of Ruler - An Autocrat Who Dares Not Abuse His Autocratic Power.

Life's Perhaps The Only Riddle That We Shrink From Giving Up.

My Object All Sublime I Shall Achieve In Time- To Let The Punishment Fit The Crime- The Punishment Fit The Crime.

It's True I've Got No Shirts To Wear; It's True My Butcher's Bill Is Due; It's True My Prospects All Look Blue - But Don't Let That Unsettle You.

If The Jests That You Crack Have An Orthodox Smack, You May Get A Bland Smile From These Sages; But Should It, By Chance, Be Imported From France, Half-a-crown Is Stopped Out Of Your Wages!