Who said “'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays:…”?

“Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.”

“The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.”

“For there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen, Before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.”

“As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; They kill us for their sport.”

“A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.”

“Oh, the brave Music of a distant drum!”

“The thoughtful soul to solitude retires.”

“Drink! for you know not whence you came nor why: drink! for you know not why you go, nor where.”

“Myself when young did eagerly frequent doctor and saint, and heard great argument about it and about: but evermore came out by the same door as in I went.”

“And that inverted bowl we call The Sky, where under crawling coop't we live and die, lift not thy hands to It for help -- for it rolls impotently on as thou or I.”

“You know, my Friends, with what a brave Carouse I made a Second Marriage in my house; Divorced old barren Reason from my Bed And took the Daughter of the Vine to Spouse.”