We are worthless fowl, hatched from unlucky eggs.

We are worthless fowl, hatched from unlucky eggs.

Bliss itself is not worth having,
If we're by compulsion blest.

Bliss itself is not worth having,
If we're by compulsion blest.

All they that take the sword shall perish with the sword.

All they that take the sword shall perish with the sword.

A man should be religious, not superstitious.

A man should be religious, not superstitious.

Grief diminishes when it has nothing to grow upon.

Grief diminishes when it has nothing to grow upon.

Fortune is never satisfied with bringing one sorrow.

Fortune is never satisfied with bringing one sorrow.

Pedigree and ancestry and what we ourselves have not achieved, I
scarcely recognize as our own.

Pedigree and ancestry and what we ourselves have not achieved, I
scarcely recognize as our own.

Good Americans when they die go to Paris.

Good Americans when they die go to Paris.

O how full of briars is this working-day world.

O how full of briars is this working-day world.