Defer not till to-morrow to be wise,
To-morrow’s sun on thee may never rise.
1926
CONGREVE:  Letter to Cobham.

To-morrow comes and we are where? 
Then let us live to-day.
1927
SCHILLER:  The Victory Feast, St. 13.

Where art thou, beloved To-morrow? 
Whom young and old, and strong and weak,
Rich and poor, through joy and sorrow,
Thy sweet smiles we ever seek—­
In thy place—­ah! well-a-day! 
We find the thing we fled—­To-day.
1928
SHELLEY:  To-morrow.

=Tongue.=

While thou livest, keep a good tongue in thy head. 1929 SHAKS.:  Tempest, Act iii., Sc. 2.

No, let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp,
And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee
Where thrift may follow fawning.
1930
SHAKS.:  Hamlet, Act iii., Sc. 2.

Sacred interpreter of human thought,
How few respect or use thee as they ought! 
But all shall give account of every wrong,
Who dare dishonor or defile the tongue.
1931
COWPER:  Conversation, Line 23.

=Tools.=

For all a rhetorician’s rules
Teach nothing but to name his tools.
1932
BUTLER:  Hudibras, Pt. i., Canto i., Line 89.

=Toothache.=

There was never yet philosopher
That could endure the toothache patiently.
1933
SHAKS.:  Much Ado, Act v., Sc. 1.

=Torrent.=

So the loud torrent and the whirlwind’s roar But bind him to his native mountains more. 1934 GOLDSMITH:  Traveller, Line 217.

=Torture.=

The hell of waters! where they howl and hiss,
And boil in endless torture.
1935
BYRON:  Ch.  Harold, Canto iv., St. 69.

=Towers.=

Towers and battlements it sees
Bosom’d high in tufted trees.
1936
MILTON:  L’Allegro, Line 75.

=Town.=

God made the country, and man made the town. 1937 COWPER:  Task, Bk i., Line 749.

=Toys.=

Seeks painted trifles and fantastic toys,
And eagerly pursues imaginary joys.
1938
AKENSIDE:  Virtuoso, St. 10.

=Trade.=

But times are alter’d; trade’s unfeeling train
Usurp the land, and dispossess the swain;
Along the lawn, where scatter’d hamlets rose,
Unwieldy wealth and cumbrous pomp repose.
1939
GOLDSMITH:  Des.  Village, Line 63.

Trade’s proud empire hastes to swift decay. 1940 DR. JOHNSON:  Line added to Goldsmith’s Des.  Village.

=Tranquillity.=

Like ships that have gone down at sea
When heaven was all tranquillity.
1941
MOORE:  Lalla Rookh, The Light of the Harem.

=Traveller—­Travelling.=

Now spurs the lated traveller apace
To gain the timely inn.
1942
SHAKS.:  Macbeth, Act iii., Sc. 3.

When I was at home, I was in a better place;
But travellers must be content.
1943
SHAKS.:  As You Like It, Act ii., Sc. 4.