Emotions and Feelings

A mind at peace with all below,

Society is now one polished horde,

I’ll publish, right or wrong:

The English winter—ending in July,

Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure;

And if I laugh at any mortal thing,

… That all-softening, overpowering knell,

In her first passion woman loves her lover,

Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter,

On with the dance! let joy be unconfined;

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four.

All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.

Doubtless the pleasure is as great

Love is a boy, by poets styled,

Be not solitary, be not idle.

To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun.

All my joys to this are folly,

All my joys to this are folly,

O wad some Pow’r the giftie gie us

Wee, sleekit, cow’rin’, tim’rous beastie,

Fair fa’ your honest, sonsie face,

Tam tint his reason a’ thegither,

Tam tint his reason a’ thegither,