Tennyson, “Princess.”

Temperance

Honest water is too weak to be a sinner; it never left man in the mire.

Shakespeare, “Timon of Athens,” i. 2.

The Press

There various news I heard of love and strife,

Of peace and war, health, sickness, death and life,

Of loss and gain, of famine, and of store,

Of storm at sea and travel on the shore,

Of turns of fortune, changes in the state,