1517
THE BREVITY OF PLEASURES.
Pleasures are like poppies spread,
You seize the flower, its bloom is shed;
Or, like the snow-fall in the river,
A moment white, then melts forever.
—Burns: Tam O'Shanter.
1518
There is a certain dignity to be kept up in pleasures as well as in business.
1519
The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.
—Charles Lamb.