Gather the flowers, but spare the buds."

"Self-preservation, nature's first great law,
All the creatures, except man, doth awe."

Annihilating all that's made
To a green thought in a green shade.

"Let us roll all our strength and all
Our sweetness up into one ball,
And tear our pleasures with rough strife
Thorough the iron gates of life:
Thus, though we cannot make our sun
Stand still, yet we will make him run."

"The grave's a fine and private place,
But none, I think, do there embrace."