MART soldiers like to be well tightened in:
Loose habits would destroy all discipline.
H. J. Byron, in English Epigrams.
ONTAINE, the architect, who built the triumphal arch in the Carrousel, placed upon it an empty car, drawn by the famous bronze Venetian horses. Talleyrand asked him, "Qui avez vous l'intention de mettre dans le char?" The answer was, "L'Empereur Napoléon, comme de raison." Upon which Talleyrand said, "Le char l'attend."
Gronow, Recollections.
IS doubtless well to be sometimes awake—
Awake to duty, and awake to truth,—
But when, alas! a nice review we take
Of our best deeds and days, we find, in sooth,
The hours that leave the slightest cause to weep
Are those we passed in childhood or asleep!
John Godfrey Saxe, Poems.
IR TOBY. "Does not our life consist of the four elements?"