Money is the main weapon of modern oligarchs.

Her cheekes lyke apples which the sun hath rudded

Not uncommonly, I find that I have arrived too late to catch my train.

Porism: something between a problem and a theorem or that in which something is proposed to be investigated. A Porism is a proposition in which it is proposed to demonstrate that some one thing, or more things than one, are given, to which, as also to each of innumerable other things, not given indeed, but which have the same relation to those which are given, it is to be shewn that there belongs some common affection described in the proposition.