A Laxity Pervades The Popular Use Of

When I Am Not Walking, I Am Reading. I Cannot Sit And Think.

I Own That I Am Disposed To Say Grace Upon Twenty Other Occasions In The Course Of The Day Besides My Dinner. I Want A Form For Setting Out Upon A Pleasant Walk, For A Moonlight Ramble, For A Friendly Meeting, Or A Solved Problem. Why Have We None For Books, These Spiritual Repasts-a Grace Before Milton-a Grace Before Shakespeare-a Devotional Exercise Proper To Be Said Before Reading The Fairie Queene?

Pain Is Life - The Sharper, The More Evidence Of Life.

What Have I Gained By Health? Intolerable Dullness. What By Mode Meals? A Total Blank.

Go Where Glory Waits Thee! But While Fame Elates Thee, Oh, Still Remember Me!